Readings, conferences & other events
Dates, times, and venues may be subject to change. Please confirm in advance.
2026
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- Providence, RI
- Friedman Hall 201 at
- Brown University Nonfiction Series
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- Brooklyn, NY
- Books Are Magic at
- New York Book Launch Event
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- South Hadley, MA
- Odyssey Books at
- Reading and book signing
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- Plainville, MA
- An Unlikely Story at
- Reading and book signing
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- Quincy, MA
- Next Chapter Books at
- Reading and book signing
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- Cambridge, MA
- Porter Square Books at
- Boston Book Launch Event
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- Duxbury, MA
- Booked in Duxbury at
- Reading and book signing
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- Hingham, MA
- Ames Chapel at
- "Dead of Winter" Arts Series
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- Wellesley, MA
- Wellesley Books at
- Reading and book signing
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- Washington, DC
- Politics & Prose at
- Reading and Q&A (co-starring Jenna Blum)
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- Baltimore, MD
- Baltimore Convention Center at
- AWP Conference Panel: "A Lifetime to Write: 50 Years of the Warren Wilson MFA"
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- Key West, FL
- Key West Public Library at
- "Friends of the Key West Library" Speaker Series
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- New Orleans, LA
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- Saints and Sinners Literary Festival
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- Portsmouth, NH
- Portsmouth Music Hall at
- Reading and Q&A
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- Los Angeles, CA
- Details TBA at
- Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
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- Denver, CO
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- Lighthouse LitFest
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- Aspen, CO
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- Aspen Summer Words
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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