“Reading her essays will make you want to sit in on her workshops or watch her perform.” —Electric Literature
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2024
January 28—publishing masterclass online for Cleaver.
February 3—reading for The Porch in Nashville w/ Dessa and Eva Cassel.
February 9—East Coast, West Coast, Best Coast: Writing the Midwest w/ Maggie Smith, Ashley Ford, Denne Michele Norris and Rebecca Makkai.
February—StoryStudio’s Pub Crawl is a month of online events for writers interested in the publishing industry. I’m talking w/ Samantha Irby on the 20th and running a workshop on the 21st.
February 23—talking w/ with Lara Ehrlich for Writer Mother Monster.
March 26—talking about essays for The Op Ed Project.
March 27—talking about publishing for Poets & Writers.
June 10-15—week-long retreat at Ragdale writing personal narrative and the environment with the very brilliant Eiren Caffall.
July 19—Northwestern University Summer Writers Conference.
July 30—talking w/ Michele Weldon for The Op Ed Project.
August 25—online masterclass for Cleaver.
September 7—talking w/ Emily Farris for Printer’s Row Lit Fest
October 17—talking w/ Eiren Caffall at Women & Children First
December 18—writing resistance for StoryStudio
2025
February 15—2nd Story
April, Saturday mornings—writing grief master class for Off Assignment with Samantha Irby, Lulu Miller, Matthew Salesses, and Vauhini Vara
April 16—writers at work for Bookends University
May 22—talking w/ Carmen Maria Machado for StoryStudio at the Newberry
June 11-14—teaching for the Yale summer writers’ workshop
Favorites.
Reading We Say and Do Kind Things for 2nd Story.
Talking with Esmé Weijun Wang for the Black Mountain Institute.
Talking with Melissa Febos and Kaveh Akbar for the Portland Book Festival in 2017 and continuing that conversation five years later for The Archive Project.
Working with brilliant high school writers at Interlochen.
Working with Humanities Without Walls.
Performing with the Lakeview Symphony Orchestra. Here’s a rehearsal.
Reading about doing ecstasy at the symphony for Poets & Writers Live.
A weird drunk ignite talk about bookshelves.
Yelling on the mic for the Paper Machete live news magazine at The Green Mill. I love you, Chicago.
Photo by Sarah Elizabeth Larson for the Paper Machete.
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