Readings, conferences, and other events

2025

March

April

Select past engagements

2023

  • 02/05: National Writers Union Boston Keynote, Boston, MA
  • 03/04: Key West Literary Seminar Residency, Key West, FL
  • 06/06: Eureka Valley Reads, San Francisco, CA
  • 08/09: Istituto di Cultura di Montreal, Montreal, QC

2021 & 2022

  • 07/21/21: Betsy Hotel Writer-in-Residence, Miami, FL
  • 10/13/22: Fall For the Book Festival, Fairfax, VA
  • 10/27/22: Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence Reading & Presentation, Brandeis University

2020

  • 1/13: Key West Literary Seminar, Faculty
  • 2/04: Aspen Summer Words Festival
  • 6/19: Nantucket Book Festival

2019

  • 1/14: Iowa Writers’ Workshop Lecture, Iowa City, IA
  • 2/14: New York State Writers Institute, Albany, NY
  • 2/20: In-Conversation with Emma Straub, Books Are Magic, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2/28: In-Conversation with Lan Samantha Chang and Margot Livesey, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
  • 4/20: Unbound Book Festival, Columbia, MO
  • 5/03: Booktopia at Northshire Bookstore, Manchester Center, VT
  • 5/20: In-Conversation with Chip Cheek, Book Soup, Los Angeles, CA
  • 5/31: In-Conversation with Rebecca Makkai, Twenty Summers, Provincetown, MA
  • 6/07: LitFest at Lighthouse Writers, Denver, CO
  • 6/15: Keynote Speaker, Sozopol Fiction Seminars, Sozopol, Bulgaria
  • 8/01: Canaan Meetinghouse Reading Series, Canaan, NH

2017

  • 4/12: In Conversation with John Waters, Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA
  • 6/5: “Writing Queer Lives” Panel, Trident Booksellers, Boston, MA
  • 6/24: Keynote Speaker, Wilmington Writers Conference, Wilmington, DE

2016

  • 10/20: Concord Festival of Authors, Concord, MA

2015

  • 3/23: Poets and Writers Annual Gala, New York, NY
  • 8/10: Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Ripton, VT
  • 9/18: Bread Loaf in Sicily, Erice, Sicily

2014

  • 1/31/14: Geneva Writers’ Conference, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 4/10/14: Wheaton College, Norton, MA
  • 6/19/14: The Loft Mentor Series, Minneapolis, MN
  • 8/18/14: Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

2013

  • 3/22/13: Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, New Orleans, LA
  • 10/7/13: PEN/Faulkner Gala, Washington, DC
  • 10/17/13: University of Michigan Zell Visiting Writers Series, Ann Arbor, MI
  • 10/21/13: Calandra Italian-American Institute, New York, NY

2003

  • 8/20/03: Melbourne Writers Festival, Melbourne, Australia