Events
2024
May 14 Asheville, NC. The Red Grove book launch! rEvolve Mercantile, 7pm ET. Co-hosted by
Malaprop’s and Punch Bucket Lit. In conversation with Heather Newton
May 15 Brooklyn, NY. The Center for Fiction. 7pm ET. In conversation with Julia Phillips
May 16 Boston, MA. Porter Square Books & Grub Street. 7pm ET. In conversation with Margot Livesey
May 17 Providence, RI. Riffraff. 7pm ET. In conversation with Annie Hartnett
June 4 Seattle, WA. Elliot Bay Books. 7pm PT.
June 5 Olympia, WA. Browsers Books. 6pm PT. In conversation with Star Wuerdemann
June 6 Portland, OR. The Stacks. 6pm PT.
June 8 Corte Madera, CA. Book Passage. 4pm PT.
June 9 Oakland, CA. Clio’s Bookstore and Bar. 11am PT.
June 23 Asheville, NC. Malaprop’s. In conversation with Taylor Brown.
June 25 Spartanburg, SC. Hub City Bookstore. 6pm. In conversation with Eric Kocher
June 27-30 Sweet Briar College, VA. Sweet Briar Arts and Writing Retreat, Keynote Speaker
July 18 Providence, RI. Riffraff. 7pm ET, with Clare Beams, Rufi Thorpe, Annie Hartnett
July 19 Newton, MA. Newtonville Books. 7pm ET, with Clare Beams, Rufi Thorpe, Annie Hartnett
July 20. Portland, ME. Print. 7pm ET, with Clare Beams, Rufi Thorpe, Annie Hartnett
July 21 Exeter, NH. Water Street Bookstore. 3pm ET, with Clare Beams, Rufi Thorpe, Annie Hartnett
Sept 20 Asheville, NC. Punch Bucket Literary Festival. In conversation with Lauren Groff
(more events TBA!)
2023
January 16 (in person) Punch Bucket Lit, Asheville, NC
(more to come soon!)
2022
(Did a few readings, was mostly busy having a baby. Friends, she is CUTE.)
2021
June 16 (virtual) North Central College Reading, Chicago, IL
July 13-19 (in person) Writing in Greece, Putney Student Travel, Greece
July 20-Aug 1 (in person) Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Sewanee, TN
October 14-30 (in person) Tin House Second Book Residency, Portland, OR
2020
FEBRUARY
5-7 Muhlenberg College, Nonfiction Conference & Residency, Allentown, PA
19-22 University of Alabama, Bankhead Visiting Writer Series, Tuscaloosa, AL
APRIL
2 Clemson University, Clemson Literary Festival, Clemson, SC
JUNE
24-27 Priory Writer's Retreat, Eau Claire, WI
2019
JANUARY
17 Spartanburg Art Museum, featured writer/performer at Art Walk, Spartanburg, SC
28 Converse College, Spartanburg, SC
FEBRUARY
8 Flatiron Writers 25th Anniversary Celebration, Upcountry Brewing, Asheville, NC
19 University of South Carolina, Upstate Campus, Spartanburg, SC
25 Emrys Reading Room Series, The Velo Fellow, Greenville, SC
MARCH
14-15th University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
21-24th University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
27-31st AWP, Portland, OR
APRIL
7-9th University of Mary Washington, Fredricksburg, VA
JUNE
1 Opening Keynote Address, Upstate Writing Month, Spartanburg Public Library, Spartanburg, SC
30-5th Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown, Nonfiction/Memoir Workshop, Provincetown, MA
JULY
19-21st Hub City Writer's Writing in Place Conference, Nonfiction Workshop, Spartanburg, SC
22-24th Augsburg University, MFA Nonfiction Guest Faculty, Minneapolis, MN
SEPTEMBER
6-7th Carolina Mountains Literary Festival, Burnsville, NC
OCTOBER
2nd Weller Book Works, Utah Book Awards Finalist Celebration, Salt Lake City, UT
25th Dorman High School, Spartanburg, SC
NOVEMBER
8-10th North Carolina Writers Network Conference, Asheville, NC
2018
FEBRUARY
3rd Hub City Workshop, Spartanburg, SC
15th-Mar 2nd Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
MARCH
7th-11th AWP, Tampa, FL
APRIL
4th-6th Franklin & Marshall Emerging Writers Festival, Lancaster, PA
23rd Sob Sisters, New York, NY (private event with Susannah Cahalan, Ada Calhoun, Karen Abbott & more!)
MAY
1st Hub City Book Store, Spartanburg, SC - THE ELECTRIC WOMAN book launch!
4th Moe’s Books, Berkeley, CA
5th Green Apple Books (in conversation with Shawn Wen), San Francisco, CA
6th Peak Design (with Dave Madden), San Francisco, CA
7th Booksmith (in conversation with Molly Giles), San Francisco, CA
8th Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA
10th Barnes & Noble, San Luis Obispo, CA
11th Mysterious Galaxy (with Julia Evans, Ryan Bradford & Felicia Williams), San Diego, CA
13th Last Bookstore, Los Angeles, CA
15th Bookmine, Napa, CA
17th Park Road Books, Charlotte, NC
25th Asheville’s Americana Burlesque & Sideshow Fest, Asheville, NC
26th Malaprop's, Asheville, NC
JUNE
3rd Converse College, Visiting Faculty for Low Res MFA, Spartanburg, SC,
6th-10th Writers at Work, Workshop Faculty, Nonfiction, Alta, UT
25th Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
26th "Afternoon Live," Portland's ABC TV station
26th Powell's, Portland, OR
30th Live Wire Radio with Luke Burbank, Portland, OR
JULY
13th-17th Writing in Ireland, Putney Student Travel, Ireland
AUGUST
18th Coney Island Sideshow, NY
20th Memoir Monday, Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY
30th M Judson Booksellers, Books 'n Beer, Greenville, SC
31st-Sept. 2 Decatur Book Festival, Atlanta, GA
SEPTEMBER
5th & 12th Flatiron Writers Room, Asheville, NC
22nd BookFest, St. Louis, MO
25th The King's English, Salt Lake City, UT (Utah Book Festival)
26th Booked on 25th, Ogden, UT (Utah Book Festival)
27th Logan Library, Logan, UT (Utah Book Festival)
OCTOBER
2-4th Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA
12th-14th Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN
18th-20th Chippewa Valley Book Festival, Eau Claire, WI
21st Arcadia Books, Spring Green, WI
NOVEMBER
1st CalArts, Valencia, CA
8th-11th Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, LA
14th Malaprop's Bookstore, Asheville, NC (In Conversation with Leslie Zemeckis)
17th-18th Miami Book Fair, Miami, FL
26th-27th Coastal Carolina University, SC