Kalina is mostly a poet, but her fiction and creative nonfiction have also been published. She is a high school English teacher. Kalina has previously been published in Nebo, A Literary Journal, The Ignatian, FLARE: The Flagler Review, the Cackling Kettle, ONE ART: A Journal of Poetry, RedRoseThorns, Down in the Dirt, and The Wayfarer, and has work forthcoming in The Font, Porcupine, Superfan, and The Dawn Review. She currently serves as poetry editor for Shadowplay.


Selected work
- Fiction
1
- Nonfiction
1
- Poetry
10

Moths are Not Butterflies
The Wayfarer, 2025

Jagged Life
redrosethorns journal, 2024

She Wanted Purple Jeans for Christmas
ONE ART: a journal of poetry, 2024

The B-Grandkid
Down in the Dirt, 2025

Written Archaeology
Down in the Dirt, 2025

Epinephrine
redrosethorns journal, 2024

Orion's Killer
The Cackling Kettle, 2024

Delta Blues
FLARE: the Flagler Review, 2024

Ode to Blue
The Ignatian Literary Magazine, 2022

The Highest Point
Free Spirit, 2022

A Torch on Andromeda
Nebo, a Literary Journal, 2019

I Am Blue
Nebo, a Literary Journal, 2018