Karolina Letunova grew up in Western Siberia. Her short work has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, The Threepenny Review, AGNI, The Kenyon Review, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was a Rackham Merit Fellow and a 2020-2021 Zell Postgraduate Fellow. She was the 2023 Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholar in Fiction and a 2023-2024 California Arts Council Artist Fellow.
Her writing has been supported by the 2025 Elizabeth George Foundation grant, 2024 The de Groot Foundation Writer of Note grant, as well as residencies and fellowships at Ucross, Storyknife, Good Hart Artist Residency, Ragdale, VCCA, and Monson Arts.
She lives with her family in Davis, CA, where she has volunteered at Logos Books since 2020.