Appearances

 
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