Events

July 13-14, 2024. New York City. Kweli International Literary Festival, Columbia Teachers College. Interactive Craft Workshop: Seven Ways of Looking at Perspective.

February 7-10, 2024. AWP. Kansas City. Please Don’t Tag Me in a Negative Review on Social Media and The Fate of the Long Short Story.

2023

December 10, 2023. Online. 3-6PM EST. Tin House Fall Intensive. The Literary Sensorium: Writing from the Body.

July 27, 2023. Online. One Story Summer Lecture Series. 2:45-4:00 ET.

July 15, 2023. New York City. 9 AM. Kweli International Literary Festival. Barnard College. Craft Talk: Seven Ways of Looking at POV.

May 25, 2023. San Francisco. 7PM at Booksmith, a reading to celebrate Zyzzyva’s 125th issue.

May 6, 2023. Bay Area Book Festival. Oakland. What Makes a Critic? with fellow National Book Critics Emerging Fellows Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo, Jonathan Leal, Antonio Lopez, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon, and NBCC Emerging Critics Chair Heather Partington.

March 11, 2023. AWP. Seattle. 12:10-1:25 PM. The Inside Connection: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Linked Story Collections featuring Lydia Conklin, Jonathan Escoffery, Carmen Maria Machado, and Maurice Carlos Ruffin.

February 14, 2023. Palo Alto. 7PM EST at Books, Inc, to launch Paz Pardo’s debut THE SHAMSHINE BLIND.

January 17, 2023. San Francisco. 7 PM EST at Booksmith. In conversation with Josh Reidel to launch his amazing debut Please Report Your Bug Here.

2022

November 16, 2022. New York City. 7 PM EST at Symphony Space. Selected Shorts: The Best American Short Stories with Andrew Sean Greer.

October 25. Menlo Park. 7 PM at Kepler Books. A Conversation with Veronica Roth about her wonderful new book POSTER GIRL.

October 22. San Francisco. 8 PM PST at Stage Werx. Club Chicxulub reading at LitCrawl 2022, featuring Kate Folk, Lauren Parker, LeeAnn Perry and music by Dev Bhat, aka Shipwreck Detective.

October 6, 2022. San Francisco. 6 PM PST. San Francisco! Join me for a celebration of my friend Jonathan’s Escoffery amazing debut collection IF I SURVIVE YOU. at CityLights Bookstore’s Kerouac Alley.

September 4, 2022. Washington, DC. National Book Festival Main Stage with Janelle Monáe, Kyle Dargan, and Alaya Dawn Johnson.