Karolina Letunova
Davis, CA
Fiction
Karolina Letunova grew up in Western Siberia. She has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she was a Rackham Merit Fellow and a ’20-21 Zell Postgraduate Fellow. Her stories appear in AGNI, The Kenyon Review, The Offing, among others. Her prose explores syntactic and narrative ways to portray an accidental immigrant’s experience of time, loneliness, and memory. It asks if a person can belong to two places at once.
Karolina is a 2023-2024 California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellow. Her work has been supported by the 2023 Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholarship in fiction and residencies at Storyknife, Good Hart Artist Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, SPACE on Ryder Farm, KHN Center for the Arts, and Monson Arts.
At Ragdale, she will be revising her novel-in-progress.