Fall 2024 | St. Augustine, FL: Storytellers Author in Residence, Flagler College
Wednesday 9/25, 8 pm | New York, NY: Ditmars Lit Reading Series with Colin Dickey, Lena Valencia and Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Monday 9/30, 7 pm CT | Online: Genre Series: Horror Edition Kick-Off Panel with Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., Cynthia Pelayo, Gus Moreno, and EK Sathue. Register: StoryStudio Chicago
Saturday 10/5 | Indianapolis, IN: Proof: A Midwest Literary Festival. Indiana Humanities. Harrison Center for the Arts
Tuesday, 10/8 | Chicago, IL: The Book Cellar in conversation with Meredith Lyons about her book Ghost Tamer
Saturday 10/12, 3:30 pm | Fairfax, VA: panel at the Fall for the Book Festival. Old Town Hall.
Wednesday 10/16, 7 pm | New York, NY: Books are Magic Offsite Reading with Vincent Anioke, Janelle Bassett, Gina Chung, Nicole Haroutunian, Shannon Robinson, Amy Stuber, & Lena Valencia. Registration
Friday 10/18 | Washington, DC: Kramers Books
Sunday 10/20, 5 pm | New York, NY: Sunday Salon
Thursday 10/24 | St Augustine, FL: Storytellers Author in Residence Reading, Flagler College
Saturday 10/26 | Boston, MA: Boston Book Festival
Monday 10/28, 8 pm ET | Online: Las Comadres and Friends Book Club
Tuesday 10/29, 7 pm | New York, NY: The Center for Fiction Event with Gabriella Burnham and Camila Santos (In-person and online)
Wednesday 10/30, 6 pm | Online: Class Visit. University of Maine class.
Saturday and Sunday 11/2-11/3 | Chicago, IL: StoryStudio Chicago Writers Festival
Sunday 11/3, 6:30 pm | Chicago, IL: 20×2 Chicago. Gman Tavern
Monday 11/4 | NYC, NY: #YeahYouWrite Reading series
Wednesday 11/6, 6 pm | Boston, MA: MassArt Creative Writing Reading series. Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Tower Room 201
Wednesday 12/4 | St. Augustine, FL: Flagler Creative Writing Gathering
Friday 12/6 | Naperville, IL: ARRTCon. Naperville Public Library
Monday 9/24 | Online private book club visit.
Thursday 9/19 | Online: Author Class Visit. Madwomen in the Attic
Saturday 9/7, 10 am | Chicago, IL: Printers Row Lit Fest panel with Ugochi Nwaogwugwu, moderated by Jim Joyce. Grace Place, 1st floor
Thursday 9/5, 7 pm | Chicago, IL: Exhibit B Series at Pilsen Community Books with Daniel Borzutzky moderated by Alex Wells Shapiro
Wednesday 9/4, 7 pm | Oak Park, IL: in conversation with Michael Allen Rose Oak Park Public Library
Sunday 9/1, 6:30 pm | Gurnee, IL: The Shining Post-Screening Writers Panel with Nick Botic, Richard Thomas, and John Lane, Horror Writers Association – Chicago, at Gurnee Mills Cinema
Wednesday 8/28, 7 pm | Denver, CO: Reading Den reading series with Raksha Vasudevan, Ashley Howell Bunn, Jessica E. Johnson, and Brianna Wheeler at Fort Greene
Monday 8/19, 8 pm | New York, NY: Franklin Park Reading Series
Sunday 8/18, 7 pm | Chicago, IL: Sunday Reading Series at Hungry Brain
Sunday 8/11-Friday 8/16 | Chicago, IL: StoryBoard at StoryStudio
Friday 7/16-Sunday 7/28 | Sewanee, TN: Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Book Tour for Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil:
Tuesday 6/18, 7 pm | Online: Pub Day Lunch Instagram Live with Amanda Churchill, Annell López and Melissa Mogollon (rsvp)
Tuesday 6/18, 7 pm | Montclair, NJ: Watchung Booksellers in conversation with Dionne Ford (rsvp)
Wednesday 6/19, 7 pm | Boston, MA: Porter Square Books in conversation with Elizabeth Gonzales James (rsvp)
Thursday 6/20, 7 pm | New York, NY (Book Launch Party): Powerhouse Arena in conversation with Jimin Han, also featuring John Keene, Katrina Dodson, Nicole Haroutunian, Nita Noveno and Simeon Marsalis (rsvp)
Thursday 6/20, 7 pm | Online: Brazilian Writers in Conversation Instagram Live with Bruna Dantas Lobato, Camila Santos, Gabriella Burnham and Flavia Stefani (join)
Friday 6/21, 7 pm | Chicago, IL (Book Launch Party): Women & Children First co-launch with Puloma Ghosh, author of Mouth, in conversation with Jami Nakamura Lin (rsvp)
Saturday 6/22, 12 pm | Chicago, IL: (Book signing) Barbara Bookstore (State Street)
Monday 6/24, 11 am | Iowa City, IA: Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Eleventh Hour Lecture Series
Monday 6/24, 7 pm am | Iowa City, IA: Prairie Lights in conversation with Ren Arcamone
Tuesday 6/25, 6:30 pm | Milwaukee, WI: Boswell Books in conversation with Danielle Harms (rsvp)
Wednesday 6/26, 7 pm | Pittsburgh, PA: White Whale Bookstore in conversation with Luana Reis and Emily Kiernan. (rsvp)
Thursday 6/27, 7 pm | Cleveland, OH: Macs Backs Books on Coventry in conversation with Laura Maylene Walter (rsvp)
Friday 6/28, 6 pm | Philadelphia, PA: A Novel Idea on Passyunk in conversation with Stephanie Feldman (rsvp)
Saturday 6/29, 5 pm | Washington, DC: Politics & Prose in conversation with Lupita Aquino (rsvp)
Monday 7/1, 7 pm | San Francisco, CA: Green Apple Books in conversation with Jon Hickey
Tuesday 7/2, 7 pm | Los Angeles, CA: Skylight Books in conversation with Laura Warrell
Tuesday 7/9, 7 pm | Seattle, WA: Elliott Bay Book Company in conversation with Daniel Tam-Claiborne
Thursday 7/11 | Portland, OR: Bishop & Wilde in conversation with Michelle Kicherer
Friday 7/13-Sunday 7/14: Columbus, OH: Columbus Book Festival
Monday 7/15, 6:30 pm | Nashville, TN: Bookshop & The Porch Birthing the Book in conversation with Fatima Kola (rsvp)
Wednesday 7/31 | Online: Fearmongers
Other Events:
June 15, 2024: An Inconvenient Hour Reading Series with Allison Joseph, Nicole Haroutunian and Colin Pope. Metropolis Cafe, Chicago, IL.
June 7-9, 2024: Aurora Writers Workshop Faculty (in person). Aurora, IL.
June 1, 2024, 1 pm: StokerCon Panel “Short Story Writing: The Craft” with Nathan McCullough, Tim Waggoner, Rocky Colavito, Larry Hinkle and J.A.W. McCarthy. San Diego Mission Bay Marriott, Salon C. San Diego, CA.
May 31-June 2, 2024: StokerCon. San Diego, CA.
May 30, 2024: In conversation with Katherine Vaz, celebrating her book Above the Salt. City Lit Books, Chicago, IL.
May 23-24, 2024, 6:30 pm EST: Poets & Writers Workshop on Grants, Fellowships, and Residencies. Online.
May 18, 2024, 12:30 pm EST: Hudson Valley Writing Center Masterclass: Ghost Tour: The Supernatural in Literary Fiction Masterclass
May 15, 2024, 7:30 pm: In conversation with Ashley Honeysett, celebrating her book Fictions. Booked, Evanston, IL.
May 10, 2024, 7:00 pm: The Book Drop Reading Series. Amorphic Brewing. Milwaukee, WI
May 7, 2024, 7:30 pm: Tuesday Funk Reading Series. Hopleaf. Chicago, IL (RSVP)
April 21, 2024, 4 pm: New Fiction with Lynn Schmeidler, Ananda Lima, & Carol Mitchell in person at HVWC. Hudson Valley Writing Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY. (Pre-register here).
April 20, 2024: New Orleans Poetry Festival panel with Melissa Studdard, Simone Muench and Kelli Russell Agodon.
March 28, 9:45 am: Popular Culture Association National Conference, panel with Ruben Quesada, Melissa Studdard, Simone Muench and CM Burroughs. Chicago, IL.
March, 15, 2024: In conversation with Nicole Haroutunian for the book launch of her novel-in-stories Choose this Now. P&T Knitwear, New York, NY
March 8 and 9, 2024, 6:30 EST: Poets & Writers Workshop: Submitting to Poetry Contests and Prizes. Online
March 7, 2024: Creative Writing Class Visit. Indiana Universtiy, Gary, IN.
February 18, 2024 7 pm CST: Open Mouth Readings, opening for Lauren Slaughter
February 10, 2024, 1:45 pm: AWP 24 Lightning Readings led by P.D. Keenen Bookfair Stage, AWP Bookfair, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 3. Kansas City, MO.
February 10, 2024, 10:00 am: AWP Bookfair Book Signing (Mother/land) with JoAnna Novak at Black Lawrence Press Booths 643 & 645 . AWP Bookfair, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 3. Kansas City, MO.
February 9, 2024, 7:30 pm: Offiste Reading: Chicago Poets in KC, with Diego Báez. BLK + BRWN. Kansas City, MO.
February 9, 2024, 2:00PM: Swag Grab & Book Plate Signing (Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil) Bookfair InfrarRealista Review Table 1156. AWP Bookfair, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 3. Kansas City, MO.
February 8, 2024, 8:30 pm: Offsite Reading: As If Conjured: A Poetry Reading Celebrating The Familiar & Her Extraordinary Friends, book launch with Sarah Kain Gutowski. Bliss Books & Wine. Kansas City, Mo.
February 7, 2024, 8:30 pm: Offsite Reading: Wednesday Night Poetry. Hosted by Kai Coggin (Full Event runs from 6:30-10:30 pm). Charlotte Street Foundation. Kansas City, MO.
February 7, 2024, 6:00 pm: Offsite Reading. Prospero’s Books. Kansas City, MO.
February 1, 2024, 6 pm CT: Story Studio Chicago Pub Crawl Kick-Off Panel. Online. Registration here.
January 31, 2024, 6:00 pm EST: Words Together, Worlds Apart Reading on the theme of FAMILY with Chen Chen, Oliver de la Paz, and Irène Mathieu, hosted by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach. Denison University, online. Pre-register here and RSVP here.
December 13, 2023, 7:30 pm: Reading at PO Box Collective Rogers Park. Chicago, IL
11/27-12/01/2023, 6 pm EST: Ekphrastic Writing Workshop, Fine Arts Work Center, 24 Pearl Street Online Writing Program. Online.
11/05: Red Rover Series Experiment #127: Moving Pictures. Reading with Warren C. Longmire and S. Yarberry, guest curator: Matthew Klane. Tritriangle, Chicago, IL.
11/03-04/2023: C.D. Wright Women’s Conference, panel with Danielle Harms, Angela Voras-Hills, Colleen Mayo, and Sarah Kain Gutowski. The University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR.
10/21/2023, 2:15 pm: “Inheritance, Practice & the Mystical Document of Poetry,” panel with Chloe Martinez, Glenis Redmond, and Jennifer Sperry Steinorth as part of the Lit Youngstown Literary Festival. Youngstown, OH.
10/20/2023, 7 pm EST: Haunted Hemingway: Ghost Stories, reading with Deborah Shapiro, Jennifer Solheim and Julia Fine. Ernest Hemingway’s Birthplace Museum, The Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. Oak Park, IL.
09/29/2023: Poetry & Biscuits Reading Series. Chicago, IL.
09/09/2023, 2:30 pm: Printer’s Row Lit Fest, Haunted Muses panel with John Duffy, Bruce, Owens Grimm, Dionne Irving, and Jami Nakamura Lin. North Stage. Chicago, IL.
08/26/2023, 2 pm: Threads Exhibition Opening Reception, reading paired with a performance piece by Bella Kiser. Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL.
08/24/2023, 6 pm: Threads: Poems to Inspire Art book launch, A Celebration of Ukrainian Independence, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL.
08/07-08/11/2023, 6 pm EST: Ekphrastic Writing Workshop, Fine Arts Work Center, 24 Pearl Street Online Writing Program, Online.
07/24/2023, 3:15 pm: Sewanee Writers Conference Staff Reading with Norris Eppes, Afsheen Farhadi, and Nathaniel Nelson. Guerry Auditorium. The University of the South. Sewanee, TN.
07/18-08/30/2023: Sewanee Writers Conference. Sewanee, TN.
03/10/23, 3-5pm: DisQuiet Offsite Reading, Jarr Bar, Seattle WA
03/10/23, 7 pm: Offsite On Purpose – Offsite Reading with Nelle, MER and SWWIM, Town Hall Seattle, Seattle WA
03/09/23, 7 pm: Exhibit B Offsite Reading: Writing the Rupture (RSVP), Underbelly, Seattle WA
03/09/23, 3:20 pm: “My Body, My Choice, My Words: Writing for Reproductive Rights,” AWP panel with with Susan Ito, Abby Minor, and Amanda Uhle Rooms 333-334, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3, Seattle WA
02/13 – 02/17/2023: Ekphrastic Writing Workshop, Fine Arts Work Center, 24 Pearl Street Online Writing Program, Online
02/13 – 02/17/2023: Ekphrastic Writing Workshop, Fine Arts Work Center, 24 Pearl Street Online Writing Program, Online
01/12/23: Wilder Words, Fine Arts Work Center 24 Pearl Street Online Faculty Reading, Online (Pre-register here)
11/29/2022: Virtual Class Visit, Old Dominion University MFA in Creative Writing
11/16/2022: Exhibit B Reading Series presented by Guild Literary Complex. Chicago, IL
11/14/2022: Writers at the University visiting writer (reading and lecture), University of Tampa
11/10/2022, 4 pm: English Department Creative Writing Series Reading with Hadara Bar-Nadav. Lewis University, Academic Building Classroom AS 158A, Romeoville, IL
11/08/2022, 11:30 am EST: Virtual Class Visit, Creative Writing, Bowling Green State University
11/04-05/2022: C.D. Wright Women Writers’ Conference, Panel presentation with Jennifer Sperry Steinorth and Caroline M. Mar
10/19/2022: All But True: Poems of Complicated Identities, Reading and Conversation with Raena Shirali, celebrating her new book Summonings. Sponsored by Blue Stoop & New Door. A Novel Idea, Philadelphia, PA
10/18/2022: Distinguished Writers Series Reading at The Holy Family University, Philadelphia, PA
10/16/2022, 5 pm: Poets of Queens, with Pauline Findlay, Tova Green, Emily Hockaday, and Lynne Sachs, QED, Astoria, New York, NY
10/13/2022, 7 pm: Haunted Reading with Julia Fine and Jami Nakamura Lin and Bruce Owens Grimm. Ellipsis Coffeehouse, Chicago IL
10/04/2022, 6:30 pm: Read the Room reading series, New York, NY
09/29/2022, 7 pm: Reading and conversation celebrating Where Are the Snows by Kathleen Rooney. Pilsen Community Books, Chicago, IL
09/29/2022, 9:30 am: “Woman Heirs of Anthropophagy/Mulheres herdeiras da Antropologia” panel with Bruna Kalil Othero, part of the Brazilian Modern Art and Culture: 1922-2022 by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Indiana. Global and International Studies Building, GA 1060. Bloomington, IN
9/10/2022, 12 pm: Writing Overwhelming Realities panel in the Chicago Printer’s Row Festival with Julia Fine, Dionne Irving, Jami Nakamura Lin, and Jeffrey Wolf
07/19-31, 2022: Sewanee Writers’ Conference. The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
07/27/2022, 3 pm: Sewanee Writers’ Conference Staff Reading, with Darcy Parker Bruce and Jonathan Heinen. The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
07/16/2022, 5:30 pm: Hot Poet Summer Reading, The Porch, Nashville, TN
07/16/2022, 3 pm: Poetry Craft Class at The Porch, Nashville, TN
07/08/2022, 6:30 pm: Disquiet 10th Anniversary Celebration Reading with Gabe Bump, T Kira Madden and Jacinto Lucas Pires. Brotéria, Lisbon, Portugal
06/26-07/08/2022: Disquiet International Literary Program, FLAD Fellow. Lisbon, Portugal
05/22/2022, 6 pm EST: Sunday Salon Chicago, with Emily Maloney, Yasmina Madden, Alex Wells Shapiro, and David Sullivan. Online.
05/22/2022, 11:30 PT: #WitnessWeekends premiere of the Missed Connections issue of Witness Magazine. You Tube.
05/06/2022, Witness Magazine ” Missed Connections” Launch Party (hybrid), part of the BMI Wave In Festival, Las Vegas and online (8:45 pm PT Zoom Toast, 9 om PT in person party, 9:30 pm PT Premiere of Virtual Readings
05/06/2022, 7:30 pm EST: The David Has Zoom Pro Reading Series, with Prince Bush, Paola Capó-García, Orchid Cugini. Online.
05/01/2022, 6 pm EST: Experimental Reading Collage with Yohanca Delgado, Katrina Dodson, John Keene, Gwen Kirby, Simeon Marsalis and Milo R. Muise. Hosted by Newfound. Online (pre-register here)
04/29/2022, 7 pm EST: Couplet Reading Series – National Poetry Month, with Mary Biddinger, Dorianne Laux, Adrian Matejka, Michael Montlack, and Helen Vitoria. Hybrid: KGB Bar and online. New York, NY. Online.
04/21/2022, 7 pm CST/ 8 pm EST: Women & Children First with Jenny Qi and Dustin Pearson. Online
04/21/2022, 6 pm CST/ 7 pm EST: Brooklyn Poets Reading Series with Eugenia Leigh and Tom Sleigh. Online
04/14/2022, 07:00 pm EST: Lyrics & Dirges Reading Series with manda Mei Kim and Kevin Madrigal Galindo. Online
04/10/2022: Latinx in Publishing #Sala Sundays Instagram Take Over / Ask Me Anything Session
04/07/2022, 11:30 am EST: Guest Lecturer, Bowling Green State University. Online
04/01/2022, 8 pm CST: LiterAlley, Virtual Mini-fest curated by Alabrava Press, Host Publications, Infrarrealista Review, and Newfound. Reading with Anthony Warnke and Hussain Ahmed. Online
03/30/2022, 7 pm: In Print Festival of First Books Panel with Dionne Irving, J.R. Jamison, and Abigail Cloud. In-Person. Ball State University. – In-person, University, Muncie, IN
03/29/2022, 7 pm: In Print Festival of First Books Reading with Dionne Irving and J.R. Jamison. In-person, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
03/26/2022 (AWP Saturday), 3:20 pm: AWP Conference panel with Emma Komlos-Hrobsky, Suphil Lee Park, Joy Priest, and Devon Walker Figueroa. In-person, Panel S219, 121BC, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level. In-person and online, Philadelphia, PA
03/25/2022 (AWP Friday), 6 pm: The Adroit Journal, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Noemi Press, & Deep Vellum Offsite Reading, The Whiskey Room at The Loews Hotel. In-person, Philadelphia, PA
03/25/2022 (AWP Friday), 2 pm: Book Signing, Black Lawrence Press Booth #343, AWP Book Fair.
03/24/2022 (AWP Thursday), 6 pm: Offsite Reading at Head House Books. In-person, Philadelphia, PA
03/21-22/2022: Writing: A Life – Visiting Writer at Lebanon Valley College. Reading and Guest Lectures. In-person and online, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA
03/20/2022, 2 pm: The Freya Project Benefit Reading with Jessamine Chan, Julia Fine, Ananda Lima, Emily Maloney, and Toya Wolfe, In-person, Hopleaf Bar, Chicago IL.
03/19/2022, 7 pm EST: Get Fresh Books Reading at SmolFair, with Rosebud Ben-Oni and Kathy Engels, online
03/19/2022, 6 pm EST: SMOL Reading at SMOLFair, with Leah Angstman, Gabriell Blackwell, Tobias Carroll, Kwame Daniels, Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim, Sehba Sarwar, Elizabeth Switaj, Carlos Soto-Romàn, Hannah V Warren, July Westhale and Mandy-Suzanne Wong. Online.
03/18/2022, 6 pm EST: Women’s Voices in Brazilian Poetry with Elizandra Souza, moderated Luana Reis – ADDVerse Poesia, University of Pittsburg. In-person and online. Pittsburg, PA
03/11/2022, 4 pm: Book Signing/ Meet and Greet – The Book Den, In-person. Santa Barbara, CA
02/11/2022: BAM and Triple Canopy post-screening panel part of the Brazilian Modernism at 100 series Katrina Dodson, Rodrigo Séllos, moderated by Matthew Shen Goodman. In-Person, BAM, New York, NY
02/09/2022: Hudson Valley Writers Center Reading Series with Richie Hofmann, and Cindy Veach – online
02/02/2022: Hayden’s Ferry Review Issue 68 Virtual Reding with Sophia Terazawa, Sean Enfield, and Joy Tabernacle-KMT. Register here.
01/25/2022, 8 pm EST: Black Lawrence Press Reading Series with Mary Biddinger, online. Register here.
01/22/22, 7 pm EST: White Whale Bookstore with Aiden Angle, Emily Mohn-Slate, and Adriana Ramírez. In-person, Pittsburg, PA
01/04/2022, 7-9 pm EST: First Tuesdays Reading Series. Online.
12/30/2021, 7 pm EST – Vigil Chapbook, Get Fresh Books Launch with Cynthia Dewi Oka, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, and JP Howard. Online.
12/21, 09:30 pm EST: Words Together Worlds Apart End of the Year Showcase with Joy Ladin, Kelli Russell Agodon, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Marina Blitshteyn, Conor Bracken, Taylor Byas, Melissa Crowe, Kendra DeColo, Jennifer Espinoza, Diamond Forde, Anuja Ghimire, Jared Harel, Niki Herd, Ae Hee Lee, Jen Karetnick, Nina Kossman, Jason Schneiderman, Chloe Martinez, Taije Silverman, Jessica Q. Stark, Yerra Sugarman, & David Woo. Online
12/14/2021: Panel on the Intersection of Poetry and Photography, attached to Sarah Moon’s exhibition 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵, with B.A.Van Sise, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and New York Public Photo historian Billy Parrott. In-person, Fotografiska, New York, NY
12/13/2021, 7 pm PCT: Odd Mondays with Folio Books with Christine No, Steven Riel, and Maxim D. Shrayer. Online
12/11/2021: An Inconvenient Hour: Prose, Poetry, and Coffee: Chicago’s most awkwardly timed reading series – with Aviya Kushner, Ananda Lima, and Kathleen Rooney. In-person, Metropolis Cafe, Chicago
12/07/2021: Chicago Review of Books Chirby Awards Poetry Readings, posted on the Story Studio Chicago Instagram Account. Online
12/05/2021, 11 pm CST: Red Rover Series “Reading Experiment in Progress” part of The Lumpen Times exhibition “Successful Failures.” In-person, The Chicago Cultural Center
12/03/2021, 7 pm EST: Soul Sister Revue reading with Willie Perdomo, Tina Chang, Kai Coggin, and Aurielle Marie, led by Cynthia Manick. Online
12/02-12/23, 7 pm EST: Virtual Workshop: Poetry of the Senses (Four Thursdays in December: 02,09*,16 and 23), Ridgelines Language Arts. Online
12/01/2021, 6-9 pm CST: Virtual Craft lecture “How Did That Get Here? Foreign Objects in Fiction and Poetry” – Fall 2021 Visiting Writer, The Porch. Online
11/22/2021, 6 pm PCT: Green Apple Books with Ariel Francisco, Nathan McClain, and Alison C. Rollins – online
11/20/2021, 5:30 pm CST: The Porch Fall Visiting Writer Reading – The Porch – Nashville, TN
11/20/2021, 2-5 pm CST: Writing Parents and Children Workshop – The Porch – Nashville, TN
11/18/2021 – 6 pm CST: with Tommy Dean, Francine Witte, and Hananah Zaheer, online
11/17/2021 – 7 pm PCT: with Donna Spruijt-Metz, Flower Conroy and Heidi Seaborn – Chevalier’s Books – Los Angeles, CA
11/14/2021, 8:30 pm EST: Rattlecast – online
11/09/2021, 6:30 pm CST: Wandering the Body: Journeying Women Stories: a Guild Literary Complex Reading with JoAnna Novak, Natania Rosenfeld, and Keli Stewart – online
11/8/21: Mac’s Backs Books on Coventry with Meg Shevenock – online
11/7/21, 7 pm EST: Mercy Street Readings – online
11/3/21, 6:30 pm EST: Red Door Reading Series – St. Marks Episcopal Church – Jackson Heights, NY and online
11/01/2021: Ridgeline Langauge Arts at The Green Drake Gallery and Arts Center – Milheim, PA
10/29/2021, 5 pm: Hyde Brothers Booksellers (RSVP)- Fort Wayne, IN
10/28/2021, 6 pm EST: Booksmith, with Omotara James, Susan Nguyen, and Alina Stefanescu – online
10/27/2021, 7 pm EST: Duende District Bookstore, with Roberto Carlos Garcia, Tomás Morín and Raina León – online
10/23/2021, 6:30 pm EST: Book Launch Party (co-launch with Tracy Fuad) with Allison Albino, Như Xuân Nguyễn and KC Trommer. Presented by Andy Gallagher, Von Bar – New York, NY (rsvp)
10/21/2021, 6pm EST: Salamander Issue Launch Reading with Andy Smart, Stephanie Burt, – online (register, rsvp)
10/21/2021, 7 pm EST: Writer’s Center and Poet Lore Virtual Craft Chat with Emily Holland – online (register)
10/20/2021, 6:30 pm CST: City Lit Books, with Becky Cooper (rsvp, rsvp)- Chicago, IL
10/17/2021, 6:30 pm: Sunday Reading Series with Becca Klaver and Faisal Mohyuddin, hosted by Simone Muench and Kenyatta Rogers, Hungry Brain (RSVP here and here)- Chicago, IL
10/18/2021, 7 pm EST: Word Up Community Bookshop, with Marina Carerra, Emily Lee Luan, Xandria Phillips, and Felicia Zamora – online
10/13/2021, 5:30 pm CST: Birmingham Poetry Review Reading Series with Jenny Molberg, Taylor Byas, and Mary Moore – online (pre-registration required)
10/10/2021, 7 pm: Trident Booksellers & Cafe – Boston, MA
10/02/2021, 2 pm: A Garden Reading – New York Restoration Project, with Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta, Vanessa Chan, Brionne Janae, Joseph O. Legaspi, and Alex McElroy, Gil Hodges Community Garden – Brooklyn, NY
10/03/2021, 1 pm: Brooklyn Book Festival, Book Preview / Book Signing, Black Lawrence Press Booth- Brooklyn, NY
09/28/2021, 6 pm EST: Taylor Swift As Books Reading Series – Instagram Live @taylorswift_as_books
09/18/2021, 7:30 pm EST: Night{Call} Project reading with Rosebud Ben Oni, Jared Harel, KC Trommer, Sherese Francis, Safia Jama, Paolo Javier, Erika Meitner and Ekere Tallie – online
09/17/2021, 9 am CST: “Poetry as the Writing of Silence,” panel in “Prospecting: Uncovering New Veins and Voices in Identity, Genre, and Place,” The 2021 John R. Milton Writers’ Conference. With Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, Caroline M. Mar, Diana Khoi Nguyen -The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD.
08/24/21, 6 pm CDT: Sinew Anthology Online Launch Party, Poetry in the Brew – online
08/23/21, 8 pm EST: Halfway There Reading Series with Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, Katherine Dykstra and Carolyn Ferrell, books at Watchung Booksellers – online
08/21/21, 7 pm EST: Every First and Fifteenth by Dimitri Reyes -Virtual Book Launch Video Project – online
08/08/21, 2 pm (workshop) and 7 pm (reading) CST: Open Mouth Literary Center – online
07/24-07/25/2021: Ekphrastic poem exhibited alongside B.A. Van Sise’s photography as part of B.A. Van Sise’s solo photography exhibition The Infinite Present. New York City Poetry Festival, Governors Island, NY.
07/24/2021, 3 pm: Sewanee Writers’ Conference – Staff Reading with Gwen Kirby and Adam Latham
Red Rover Reading Series’ Walking Poem – July 10, 5 pm, Rogers Park, Chicago
HER FEAST: a Celebration of Artists & the virtual launch of HER READ, a Graphic Poem by Jen Sperry Steinorth – June 11, 6:30 pm CST, online
Divine Feminist Anthology Reading – June 4, online
A Wild & Precious Life Series – Divine Feminist Anthology Reading – January 6, 2021, 7:30 pm (EST), online
Words Together, Worlds Apart – Latinx Reading – May 12, 8:30 EST, online
Sewanee Writers’ Conference Reading Series – April 22, 2021, 8PM EST, online
Boog City Arts Festival – February 15, 2021, 2pm, online
Bootleg Reading Series offsite hosted by Bull City Press, Autumn House, Four Ways Books and Vox Populi – March 2, 2021, 8 pm, online
Words Together, Worlds Apart New Year Celebration Reading – January 13, 8:30 (EST), online
A Wild & Precious Life Series – January 6, 2021, 7:30 pm (EST), online
Bridgewater International Poetry Festival – Fall 2020 Virtual Event. November 16-19, 2020, online
Lit Night Reading Series. November 10, 2020, 7:30 pm CST, online
Bad Mouth Reading Series. August 31st, 2020, online
Words Together Worlds Apart: Translation – August 12, 2020, 8:30 pm EST, online
Writing Parents and Their Children – multi-genre workshop – Sewanee Writers’ Conference Masterclass. August 1, 8, and 15, 2020 3-5 pm EST, online.
Rutgers-Newark MFA Poets, virtual reading. Insta Live: https://www.instagram.com/phigirl/. April 18th, 2020 7 pm EST
“Oscillating Between the Real: Linking Autofiction to its Explicitly Fictional Counterparts” roundtable part of the 51st NeMLA Convention, March 2020, Boston, MA
Tuesday Funk – featured reader, February 04, 2020, 7:30pm, Hopleaf Bar, Chicago, IL
Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop with Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, K.C. Trommer and Artress Bethany White, November 24, 2019, 5pm, Brooklyn, NY
From Across the Waters – Voices for Immigration with Rosebud Ben-Oni, Ananda Lima and paulA Neves, November 21, 2019, 6:30 pm, Haverford College, Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia, PA
The Book Stall Reading – with KC Trommer and Faisal Mohyuddin, November 2, 2019, 3pm, Chicago, IL
To Undreamed Shores: Shakespeare and Immigrant Voices in Conversation with Shakespeare by New York Shakespeare Exchange, October 22, 2019, 7 pm, 53rd Street Library, New York, NY
Red Rover Series Special Event: 100 Thousand Poets for Change , September 28, 2019, The Read/Write Library, Chicago, IL
KGB Bar Rutgers Newark MFA Reading Series – with Ana Portnoy Brimmer and Caroline Schmidt – September 21, 2019, 7 pm, KGB Bar, New York, NY
Author Talks at Military Park July 30th, 2019, 12 pm, Military Park Reading Room, Newark, NJ
Sewanee Writers’ Conference – Staff Reading, July 25th, 2019, 9 am, Bairnwick Women’s Center, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Poetry in the Brew – Feature Reader, July 13th, 2019, 6 pm, Portland Brew East, Nashville, TN
Raising Consciousness Poetry Reading – Artfront Galleries and BrickCity Collective – Invited reader
Friday, June 14, 2019, 7:30 pm, Artfront Galleries, Newark, NJ
INDEX: a group exhibition by the NYFA 2019 Immigrant Artist Mentor Program, Newark, Saturday, May 4th, 2019, 6-9 pm, Index Arts Center, Newark, NJ
Lightning Readings by Writer to Writer Mentee Alumni, March 30th, 2019, 1:30 pm, AWP Bookfair Stage 2, Portland, OR
“From Slavery to Immigration: Poets on the American Family, a Site of Struggle”, AWP 2019 Panel, March 28, 2019, 1:30 pm, C124, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR
Rutgers-Newark MFA Reading (Offisite Reading during AWP), March 28, 2019, 6 pm, Bota Bar, Portland, OR
Queens Writers Resist – Queensbound Reading, March 16, 2019, 5pm. Terrazza 7, Queens, NY
“Oscillations between Copy and Original in Ben Lerner’s Autofiction,” conference talk as part of 50th Anniversary NeMLA Convention panel “On the Philosophy of Autofiction,” March 21, 2019, 4:30 pm, Camellia 3, Gaylord National Resort Center, Washington, DC
Quick Cuts: A Reading of Poetry and Short Fiction, January 26, 2019, 7 pm, Virile Barber and Shop, Jersey City, NJ
“Americanizada: Carmen Miranda Anthropophagy on YouTube,” conference presentation in Bites Here and There: Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism across Disciplines, November 17, Humanities Research Center, University of Warwick, England
Queensbound Project Launch – reading and reception, November 3, Seven Train (reading), Queens Museum (reception), Queens, NY
“Other women don’t tell you: The Poetics of Motherhood,” September 26, 2018, 6 pm, The Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia, PA
Rutgers-Newark MFA at KGB, September 22, 2018, 7pm, KGB, New York, NY
Sarau Antológico da Academia Taguatinguense de Letras, 4th Feira do Livro da CLDF, August 8, 2018, 5pm, Câmara Legislativa do Distrito Federal, Brasilia, Brazil
Sewanee Writers’ Conference Staff Reading, July 23, 2018, 9 am, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Disquiet International Literary Program – Participant Reading, July 9, 2018, 6 pm, Grémio Literário, Lisbon, Portugal
Halfway There Reading Series, June 18th, 2018, 7 pm, Red Eye Cafe, Montclair, NJ
Author Talks , June 19th, 2018, 12 pm, Military Park Reading Room, Newark, NJ
NJCEA Conference – reading and panel with Cam Terwilligerand Cara Adams, March 24th, 2018, Setton Hall, South Orange, NJ
Pershing Field Garden Friends Spring Benefit, March 23rd, 2018, 7 pm, La Unica Bakery, Jersey City, NJ
Poets in Pajamas, March 18, 2018, 7 pm, Facebook live.
Montclair Literary Festival – Panel with Min Jin Lee, Kem Joy Ukwu, Teka Lark and Brea Tremblay, March 17, 2018, 12:15 pm, First Congregational Church (40 South Fullerton Avenue), Montclair, New Jersey.
Rutgers-Newark MFA Mixer and Reading (AWP Offsite Reading), March 7, 2018, 8 pm, Franklin Manor, Tampa.
Live Literature at Montclair State University (Live Lit MSU), January 31, 2018, 1:00 pm, Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Soul Sister Revue, November 2, 2017, 7:00 pm, Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
MFA Student Reading – Rutgers University, Newark MFA in Creative Writing, October 24, 2017, 5:30 pm, Clement’s Place, Newark
Blue Parlor Readings – Bread Loaf Reunion and Celebration of Michael Collier, October 22, 9:00 am, The Little Theater, Bread Loaf, Ripton, VT
Author Talks with Rutgers MFA reading series, September 26, 2017, 12 pm, Military Park, Newark, NJ
Book Launch for Katie Willingham’s UNLIKELY DESIGNS – Guest Reader, September 24, 2017, 4 pm, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY
Rattle Reading Series, September 10, 2017, 5 pm, La Cañada-Flintridge, CA.
Sewanee Writers’ Conference – Staff Reading, July 24, 2017, 9 am, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Tin House Summer Workshop – Participant Reading, July 16th, 2017, 6 pm, Cerf Amphitheater, Reed College, Portland, OR
SOMa Artists Studio Tour, open studio reading, June 4th, 2017, Maplewood, NJ
Literary Town Hall at Valley Book Works, May 20, 2017, 7 pm, Orange, NJ.
The Lantern Reading Series, May 10, 2017, 7 pm, at Hifi, New York, NY
Luso-Brazilian Day at Montclair State University, April 17, 2017, 6 pm, Montclair, NJ.
Sunday Salon, 8th Annual Writers from the Dark Tower reading, March 19, 2017, 7 pm at Jimmy’s 43, New York, NY
Boundless Tales, March 9, 2017, 7 pm at The Local NY, Long Island City, NY
Live Lit MSU Reading, March 1st, 2017, 1 pm, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Reading Brazil (AWP offsite event), February 2017, Washington, DC
Writers Resist Trump Pop Up Readings, February 2017, Washington, DC
AWP 50th Anniversary Gala, February 2017, Washington, DC
Brooklyn Poets Workshop Showcase, January 2017, Brooklyn, NY
Brew XI, December 2016, Brooklyn, NY
Lamprophonic Emerging Writers Series, December 2016, New York, NY
Sundays at Erv’s Reading Series, November 2016, Brooklyn, NY
Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop poetry reading, September 2016, Brooklyn, NY
Writers from the Dark Tower reading, August 2016, Bread Loaf, Ripton, VT
The Blue Parlor Readings, August 2016, Bread Loaf, Ripton, VT
Sewanee Participant Reading, July 2016, Sewanee, TN
Tin House Summer Workshop – Participant Reading, July 2016, Reed College, Portland, OR
SOMA Artist Tour, Open Studio reading, June 2016, Maplewood, NJ
Halfway There Reading Series, April 2016, Montclair, NJ
AWP Writer to Writer Program Reception Reading, March 2016, Los Angeles
Ekphrasis II exhibition opening reading, September 2015, Montclair, NJ