I am currently booking for in-person and online events for the 2026-2027 school year.
Upcoming Events:
October 16, 2026 The Novel Neighbor to celebrate the paperback publication of Atomic Family by Ciera McElory, we will be in conversation discussing climate fiction.
November 2, 2025 2pm Of Moose and Mind Bookshop, Manilus, NY
November 3, 2025, SUNY Oswego: Living Writers Series
February 7, 2026, Saint Louis Writer’s Guild: On Fiction
AWP 2026, March: Panel The Non-coercive Rearranging of Desire: Teaching Writing Despite ‘AI’ with Éireann Lorsung, Arisa White, and Kate Schapira
You Just Missed Me:
June 26, 2025: The Wild Rumpus Bookstore in Conversation with Selina Li Bi
March 18, 2025: A Catalog of Burnt Objects Book Launch, Main Street Books Saint Charles & The Saint Charles Public Library: Kisker Road Branch Register Here
March 20, 2025: The Novel Neighbor (The Lobby at Union Station) in Conversation with Samantha Markum, Saint Louis, MO Register Here
March 27, 2025: Thursday Island Reading Series at Twice Sold Tales, Farmington ME 6pm
March 28, 2025 PRINT Bookstore, Portland, ME 7pm
March 29, 2025 Writing Disaster: Creative Response to a World Plagued by Fire, Flood at Famine, a one-day MWPA Workshop, Portland Maine, register here
April 10, 2025 Reading and Conversation: Scripps College, Claremont, CA 4pm
April 12, 2025 Book Signing and Conversation with Shannon Takaoka 2:30-4:00
Jackson Hole Writers Conference November 1-3, 2024
In Conversation with Katherine McGee to celebrate the publication of her new book A Queens Game, Main Street Books Saint Charles & The Saint Charles Public Library November 13, 2024
Kansas City Veteran Writer’s Workshop 2024
Associated Writing Programs: Kansas City 2024
Off-site AWP Event (poetry)
Wild Patience: A Poet Mom Reading Wednesday, February 7, 5:30-8:00 21c Museum Hotel, 219 W 9th St, KC 64105
AWP 2024 Panels:
Navigating Age-Based Audiences: Adult to Picture Book & Everything In BetweenNavigating Age-Based Audiences: Adult to Picture Book & Everything In Between with Linda Urban, Jennifer Moffett, & Jenn Bailey
10:35am – 11:50am on Thursday February 8, 2024
Location: Room 2102B, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
Why Take/Teach Kid Lit? Craft Arguments for Writers & Programs with Alexandra Villasante, Julie Schumacher, & Laurel Synder
Date/Time: 10:35am – 11:50am on Saturday February 10, 2024
Location: Room 2102B, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level