EVENTS

2025

March TBD, Los Angeles: AWP Conference panel “How to Create, Become, and Flourish as a City Poet Laureate,” with Tommy Archuleta, Esther Belin, G.E. Patterson, and Steven Espada Dawson

2024

February 10, Kansas City: AWP Conference panel “A Good Book Is Never Late” with Nami Mun, Ricardo Nuila, Peyton Marshall, and Vu Tran.

2023

December 23: Coffee + Culture broadcast/podcast with Matthew Chase-Daniel.

March 11, Seattle: AWP Conference panel “Despair and Repair: Teaching in Tumult” with Susan Choi, T Kira Māhealani Madden, Matthew Salesses, and Leni Zumas.

2022

May 27-28, Crested Butte, CO: The Mountain Words Literary Festival. May 27: “Notes from Underground: Writing Rich Dialogue” workshop, 2-3 pm. May 28: Moderating panel “Wealth and Remaking the American West” with Justin Farrell (Billionaire Wilderness), Claire Boyles (Site Fidelity), and Nick Bowlin (High Country News); judge for Literary Death Match with Sam Robards and Jason Antoon, featuring readers Steven Dunn, Suzi Q. Smith, Claire Boyles, and Mario Alejandro Ariza.

2021

May 28-30, 2021, Crested Butte, CO: The Mountain Words Literary Festival. Friday, May 28: Mountain Words Writers-in-Residence Reading and Reception with Chris La Tray, Lee Anderson, and Adam Valen Levinson, 5 pm, Steddy Theater. Saturday, May 29: “Writing the Intersection and Divisions Between Rural and Urban America” panel with Rachel Monroe, Nick Bowlin, and Chris La Tray in discussion with Brian Calvert, 3 pm, Center for the Arts.

2020

January 4, 2020, Portland, OR: Bike Chain Rain: A Tribute to David Cloud Berman, with writers and musicians including Steven Malkmus and Bob Nostanovich, Rebecca Gates, William Tyler, Marisa Anderson, Franklin Bruno, Jon Raymond, Kevin Sampsell, Sophia Shalmiyev, and others; Bunk Bar, 7 pm (sold out)

2019

November 21, 2019, Oberlin, OH: Reading at Oberlin College with Xan Phillips, Dye Auditorium, 7:00 pm (dinner and reception at 5:30 pm)

June 23, 2019, Washington, D.C.: American Library Association annual conference, Literary Tastes author breakfast with John Scalzi, Therese Anne Fowler, and Julia Whelan

May 12, 2019, Minneapolis: Moderating Wordplay Festival panel “Location! Location! Location!” with Kristen Arnett and Sarah Stonich, 12:45-1:45 pm, Western Bank Stage

April 30, 2019, New Orleans: 1718 Reading Series at the Columns Hotel, 3811 St. Charles Ave

April 22, 2019, Flagstaff, AZ: Narrow Chimney Reading Series, Uptown Pub

March 29, 2019, Portland: A VISION: reading hosted by Michelle Tea, with Porochista Khakpour, Jericho Brown, Ariel Gore, Sarah Schulman, Nicole Georges, Ali Liebegott, and more! At Psychic Sister, 1829 NE Alberta St, 7 pm, $25 pre-sale, sliding scale at door, NTWFLAF

March 27-30, 2019, Portland: Two panels at the AWP Conference: "How to Design a Novel Workshop" (with Susan Choi, James Hannaham, Matthew Salesses, and Leni Zumas), Saturday 1:30-2:45; and "We're Here and We're Queer: LGBTQ Women Tell Their Stories" (with Nicole Dennis-Benn, Imogen Binnie, SJ Sindu, and Patricia Smith), Thursday, 9:00-10:15

March 19, 2019, everywhere: Stray City comes out in paperback! Preorder at your local indie bookseller, Powell’s, IndieBound, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, HarperCollins.

2018

March 20, 2018, Portland: Book launch at Powell's City of Books, in conversation with Nicole Georges, 7:30 pm

March 21, 2018, Seattle: Reading at Third Place Books (Seward Park), 7:00 pm

March 22, 2018, Los Angeles: Reading + conversation with Carrie Brownstein hosted by Book Soup at the West Hollywood Library, 7:00 pm. Here's a post-reading interview with WeHoTV

March 25, 2018, Richmond, VA: Reading and launch party hosted by Chop Suey Books at Babes of Carytown, 2:00-5:00 pm

March 26, 2018, Brooklyn: Reading + conversation with Rumaan Alam at Books Are Magic, 7:30 pm

April 5, 2018, San Marcos, CA: Reading at California State University-San Marcos for the Community & World Literary Series, Markstein Hall 125, 7 pm

April 14, 2018, San Francisco: Writers with Drinks, hosted by Charlie Jane Anders, with Javier Zamora, Lilah Sturges, Domenica Phettaplace, Shobha Rao, and Chiwan Choi, at The Make Out Room, 6:30 pm

April 21, 2018, Los Angeles: Panel on Coming of Age at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, 11:00 am, with Jenny Zhang, Jonathan Evison, and Mark Haskell Smith

April 26, 2018, Minneapolis: Reading at Moon Palace Books, 7 pm

April 28, 2018, Park Rapids, MN: Reading and signing at hometown heroes Beagle and Wolf Books & Bindery, 1-3 pm

May 3, 2018, Brooklyn: One Story reading at Greenlight Bookstore with Cheston Knapp and Kendra Fortmeyer, hosted by Hannah Tinti and sponsored by the Authors Guild (there will be wine!)

May 4, 2018, Brooklyn: One Story Debutante Ball at Roulette, 7:30-10:30 pm, tickets go on sale March 1. With fellow honorees Cheston Knapp and Kendra Fortmeyer, plus mentor of the year Alexander Chee

May 5, 2018, Brooklyn: Reading at the new McNally Jackson outpost in Williamsburg with Andrea Lawlor, 7 pm

September 16, 2018, Brooklyn: Brooklyn Book Festival panel "Modern American Family," with Rumaan Alam and Luis Alberto Urrea, moderated by Steph Opitz, 2 pm

October 6, 2018, Flagstaff, AZ: Reading and conversation with KT Thompson at Bright Side Bookshop, 6 pm

October 13, 2018, Boston: The Boston Book Festival in Copley Square, “Hilarity and Heartache” with Andrew Martin, Stephen McCauley, and moderator Jessica Keener, Emmanual Parish Hall, 11 am

October 28, 2018, Austin: The Texas Book Festival, “What is Love?” with Adrian Todd Zuniga, 11 am

2017

October 20, 2017: Author reception, Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, San Francisco