Kalisha Buckhanon

Chicago, Illinois

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Quarterfinalist, The Script Lab Free Screenplay Competition: UPSTATE feature screenplay
(2023)
Top 5%, Coverfly-Feature-Drama Category: UPSTATE feature screenplay
(2023)
Finalist, WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab: UPSTATE feature
(2023)
Top 50, Launch Pad Prose Competition: SPEAKING OF SUMMER novel
(2021)
Top 23%, Coverfly-Manuscript-Drama Category: SPEAKING OF SUMMER novel
(2021)

Finalist, Hurston-Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Fiction: SPEAKING OF SUMMER novel
(2020)

Honoree, National Book Foundation "Literature for Justice" Initiative: UPSTATE novel
(2018)

Winner, Friends of American Writers Award in Literature: CONCEPTION novel
(2008)

Winner, Audie Award in Literary Fiction: UPSTATE audiobook
(2006)

Winner, American Library Association ALEX Award: UPSTATE novel
(2006)

Finalist, Hurston-Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Debut Fiction: UPSTATE novel
(2006)

Winner, Terry McMillan Young Author Award: UPSTATE novel
(2006)

Winner, Zora Neale Hurston-Bessie Head Fiction Award at the Chicago Black Writers Conference
(2006)

Winner, Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship
(2001)

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For My Man on TV One (2015 - 2018)
Television by Sirens Media (Crime) On-Air Commentator "For My Man" tells stories of women who have been arrested -- part of the growing female population in the criminal justice system -- for crimes that they committed in the name of love.
Criminals at Work on BET networks (2016)
Television by Sirens Media On-Air Commentator Every one-hour episode tells two suspenseful stories where unsuspecting everyday working people witness their own workplace transformed into a place of mayhem.
Deadly Affairs on Investigation Discovery Channel (2014)
Television by Sirens Media On-Air Commentator From love triangles that implode to office romances exposed, stories of passionate love affairs turned crimes of passion aren't just happening on daytime television. They happen in real life and, sometimes, are even stranger than fiction.

Speaking of Summer Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller When an ambitious but overwhelmed woman discovers her twin sister has vanished off the roof of their Harlem brownstone on a dead winter night, her frantic search for answers leads her back to their harrowing Midwest past and into a new life.
UPSTATE Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama When imprisonment for his father's death rips a smart Harlem teen from his ambitious first love, 10 years of their letters document a generation of Black America impacted by racial injustice and abandoned communities.