Michigan Quarterly Review 60th Anniversary Issue reprints Kalisha Buckhanon’s “Card Parties”

Michigan Quarterly Review reprinted Kalisha Buckhanon’s story “Card Parties” in their 60th Anniversary special issue to celebrate the milestone. In 2002, she sent this off to MQR after she worked it in her MFA program. She was 25 year old student in NYC and had never before published her fiction. Yet, in MQR’s look back to 60 years of the magazine, editors chose her story to be included with other stories deemed important to their legacy. This includes fiction by Joyce Carol Oates and essays by Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood.

Kalisha writes about “Card Parties,” this “little story gave me the boost at that hard time to push through to write more and that is what writers NEED. And it shows you never know where things we write will go or what it will impact.”