I’m currently an MFA candidate at the Bennington Writing Workshops in Vermont, where I’m studying fiction and working on a couple of novels.

Will appear in ROVA August/September 2022:

“Of all the people in the campground at Jalama State Park, I alone saw the UFOs. Quite literally, I could not believe my eyes. But there they were, soaring across the starry sky, alien, unlike anything I’d ever seen. “

Appeared in the Colorado Review Online Fall 2022:

“Ostensibly responding to our own increasingly sundered political poles, Kalfus’s novel places the reader in an alternative history in which America has been decimated by a partisan-fueled civil war, forcing citizens to migrate to neutral host countries around the world. Not ten years ago, that premise would’ve seemed impossible. In 2022, Kalfus’s vision of America’s future feels depressingly salient.”

Appeared in MAYDAY Magazine, 2021:

“Released in a time when Americans railed against the establishment and became increasingly progressive, Love Story offered a diversion of old-fashioned, heteronormative escapism. The message, banal: Love conquers all. The story, unoriginal: A wealthy Harvard preppie, Oliver Barrett IV, falls in love with Jennifer, a blue-collar student at Radcliffe. Parental and class dynamics complicate their relationship. Sound familiar? The story also cribs from Romeo and Juliet in terms of overall structure; the characters’ romance is just a tee-off for a fourth-act tragedy.”