Association of Writers & Writing Programs Bookfair & Conference (AWP)
2023, Seattle
Panelist for Creating an Author Platform Based on Tragedy without Sounding Perpetually Tragic
2022, Philadelphia
Panelist for Brutal or Traumatic Scenes in Creative Nonfiction: Is There a Veil?
2020, San Antonio
Panelist for Pushing Past Page 70: Reaching Creative Nonfiction Readers
2020, San Antonio
Panelist for To Boldly Go: Unconventional Publishing Opportunities from Radio and Beyond
2013, Boston
Panelist for Stranger in a Strange Land: Poets in the Composition Classroom
HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers (Lancaster)
2022
Moderator for Publishing Perspectives: A Creative Nonfiction Editors Panel
2021
Breakout Session Presenter for Write, Work, Live: Balancing a Day Job, Writing, and Trying to Do What You Love (rescheduled from 2020 due to COVID-19)
2019
Breakout Session Presenter for Doubt by Any Other Name: Combating Impostor Syndrome and Finding Your Voice
2018
Breakout Session Presenter for Navel Gazing and Other Worthy Pursuits
2017
Breakout Session Presenter for Many Roads Traveled: Writing, Publishing, and Editing Across Intersections
2016
Flash Session Presenter for Reloading the Canon: On Being an Editor of Color
James River Writers Conference (Richmond, VA)
2020
Panelist for Presenting Your Poetry
Panelist for Balancing Act
Panelist for The Importance of Representation
Presenter for On Essays-Writing Your Point
Rosemont College (Bryn Mawr, PA)
2021
Panelist for Tuesday Night Publishing Round Table (Summer Retreat)
2020
Panelist for Freelancing: Writing Online, Editing, and More (MFA Career Symposium)
Panelist for Tuesday Night Publishing Round Table (Summer Retreat)
The Muse and The Marketplace (Boston)
2019
Teaching Scholar for Navel Gazing and Other Worthy Pursuits: A Character Building Game
Wakandacon (Chicago)
2019
Panelist/Moderator for Fan Fiction for Black Girls When Reader Inserts Ain’t Enuf
Readings, Signings, and Workshops
(Please see Event Calendar for past and upcoming readings and panels)
Hidden Timber Books: Small Press Author Reading Series with Leslie T. Grover (March 2022)
Writers and Books (March 2021)
The Writers Center Virtual Craft Talk (December 2020)
Raven Bookstore Small Press Showcase (December 2020)
The Antibody Reading, October 2020
Memoir Monday Reading Series, September 2020
Hidden Timber Small Press Author Reading Series, September 2020
Reader, AWP20: CNF Reading, Moses Rose’s Hideout (San Antonio, TX)
Memoir Workshop, Drexel Writer’s Room, November 2018 (Philadelphia, PA)
No God in This Room Book Signing and Reading, The Soap Gallery, November 2018 (Youngstown, OH)
The Breakbeat Poets Vol 2: Black Girl Magic Book Tour Stop, Politics and Prose (Union Market, Washington D.C.), September 2018