2025

January 21—Reading and Writing The Resistance w/ Rebecca Makkai, Parneshia Jones, Adrian Matejka, and Michael Zapata for StoryStudio at Women & Children First.

January 23—talking with Lisa Genova for the Ragdale Foundation at the Gorton Center.

February 15—telling a story for 2nd Story at the Davis Theater.

March 5—talking with Leslie Jamison at Women & Children First.

April, Saturday mornings, online—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.