I have read, visited classes, and taught workshops through 100+ events (!) over the past four years at festivals, bookstores, museums, universities, high schools, libraries, and other nonprofit spaces.
Past Events
2025
January 15, Amanda Hawkins and E. Hughes with Amanda Moore, Green Apple Books on the Park
February 7, We the Gathered Heat anthology reading, Kearny Street Workshop
February 25, Hugo House online class visit
February 28, March 7, Poets & Writers webinar “Spring Ahead: Applying to Grants, Fellowships & Residencies”
March 28, AWP offsite, Inside/Outside LA: Asian American Writers in Suburbia, Pop-Hop
April 16, Museum as Muse: Poetry at the Anderson Collection with Blas Falconer, Farnaz Fatemi, and Kim Shuck, Stanford University
April 17-18, “Serendipity” Queer Voices collaboration premiere with composer Marcus Maroney and vocalist Tim Jones and ensemble, funded by University of Houston Mitchell Center with support from Musiqa, at Asia Society, Houston
April 21, Conversation with Marcus Maroney, “Serendipity” Queer Voices performance, University of Houston
April 24, Chabot College
April 29, Waubonsee Community College (virtual)
May 14, Mothersalt launch by Mia Ayumi Malhotra with Cathy Linh Che, Jennifer S. Cheng, Green Apple Books on the Park
June 7, Queer Poem A Day virtual reading
June 21, Foglifter reading, Intersection for the Arts, 7pm
2024
February 8, AWP Kansas City panel “Independent for Life: The Value and Benefits of Publishing with an Independent Press,” sponsored by CLMP with Montana Agte-Studier, Carmen Gimenez, and Adam Levy
February 9, AWP Kansas City panel, “Chosen Family: Making Kinship Among Queer Poets” with Keetje Kuipers, Meg Day, Jan-Henry Gray, and Charif Shanahan
February 22, Essential Queer Voices anthology online reading with Richie Hofmann, Rebecca Seiferle, Jan-Henry Gray
March 14, Poetry Society NY webinar “To the Max: Writing Poems Maximally”
March 21 & 28, Poets & Writers webinar “Let’s Do This: Applying to Grants, Residencies & Fellowships”
April 13, Berkeley Public Library
April 19, UC Berkeley Undergraduate Poetry Festival
April 20, LA Festival of Books, University of Southern CA
April 21, Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival
May 3, University of Nebraska class visit
May 3, S. Fey with Sarah Ghazal Ali, Green Apple Books on the Park
May 16, Stanford University class visit
June 21, Lavender Graduation reader, Foothill College
June 27, CLMP Awards Ceremony presenter
June 28-29, Kenyon Review Summer Online Adult Workshop
July 27, Mai Wah Society, Butte, MT
August 6, Bryant Park reading series, NYC
2023
Jan 6, Full: The Wolf Moon reading with Maw Shein Win and MK Chavez, Berkeley Art Museum
Feb 2, Poets & Writers Debut Poets (Zoom)
Feb 3, Ohio State Literary Publishing guest speaker (Zoom)
Feb 10, Couplet reading series (Zoom)
Feb 14, Fresno State guest speaker (Zoom)
Mar 9, AWP Panel Early Career—at Middle Age? Poets Publishing First Books at 40+ (Wendy Barnes, Xavier Cavazos, Shelley Wong, Joel Dias-Porter , Sarah Browning)
They Will Rise Like a Wave offsite reading
YesYes Books offsite reading
Mar 10, So You Want to Publish a Poetry Collection (Gabrielle Bates, Luther Hughes, Shelley Wong, Paul Hlava Ceballos)
My Beats are Icky reading
March 30, Something Something, LA
Apr 7, Prairie Lights Bookstore, Mission Creek Festival, Iowa City
April 11, Bookshop West Portal with Ben Guicciardi and Brian Tierney
Apr 14 & 15 Observable Poetry series reading and workshop at St. Louis Poetry Center, MO
May 7, Headlands Center for the Arts Open House
May 13, Lone Glen reading with Miah Jeffra, Barbara Tomash, Laura Walker
August 1, Napa Valley Writers Conference introduction for Victoria Chang
Sept 5, 12, 19, 26, Miami Book Fair virtual workshop
Sep 17, Black Bird Books poets reading
Sep 26, Green Apple reading with Megan Fernandes and Edgar Kunz
Oct 7, Fabulosa Books reading
Oct 13, Russian River Pride reading
Oct 15, Red Light Lit reading
Oct 18, Danville high school guest speaker
Nov 1, APAture Literary Arts feature
Nov 7-10, Minnesota State Univ at Mankato visiting writer
Nov 13, In conversation with Michael Dhyne at Green Apple Books for his debut launch Afterlife
Nov 19, SFPL Hormel Center in conversation with Celeste Chan
Nov 29, St. Mary’s College craft talk
Nov 30, In conversation with Erin Marie Lynch at Green Apple Books for debut Removal Acts
Dec 9, Berkeley Art Museum
Dec 10, ARTogether guest speaker, Oakland
2022
March 23-26 — AWP, Philadelphia (in-person), YYB/Diode/Kundiman signings
Mar 24 / YYB reading
Mar 26 / Kundiman South reading, Asian Arts Initiative with Joshua Nguyen, Susan Nguyen, Joan Kwon Glass, Kyle Lucia Wu, Haolun Xu, Bo Schwabacher, Elaine Tsieh Chou, Natasha Rao, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
April 24 / Headlands Center for the Arts Open House, Sausalito
April 29 / Kearny Street Workshop with Chinese Culture Center with Jane Wong and “Interior Garden” by Cathy Lu exhibit (SF)
May 3 / Launch event! Green Apple Books on the Park with Monica Sok (SF)
May 11 / Crofton Library (virtual) with Kathy Fagan
May 15 / Bel Canto Books with Natalie Shapero, Long Beach
May 16 / Chevalier’s Books with Taneum Bambrick and Blas Falconer, Los Angeles
May 19 / UCSF Toastmasters guest speaker, Mission Bay, Spark Social
May 23 / Greenlight Bookstore (virtual) with John Murillo
Jun 4 / Meet Me At Your Promise, Oakland Chinatown gallery event
Jun 5 / Mercy Street Reading (virtual) with Alison Adair, Nicole Tallman, Raegen Pietrucha, Andrew Rahal
Jun 5 / Bazaar Writers Salon with Richie Hofmann, Linda Ravenswood, Jonathan Rios (SF)
Jun 7 / The Ruby workshop (SF)
Jun 9 / The Booksmith — Pride Poetry Reading with Muriel Leung and Roberto Santiago (SF)
Jun 15 / Women & Children First (virtual) with Lo Kwa Mei-En and Cathy Linh Che
June 23 / Patagonia (SF)
June 25 / SF Botanical Garden with Green Apple Books on the Park
June 28 / Taylor Swift As Books with Sarah Kain Gutowski and Mary Biddinger on Instagram Live
July 8 / Grolier Poetry Book Shop with Mikko Harvey + Darcie Dennigan, Cambridge
July 12 / LGBT Center Second Tuesday lecture series in conversation with Janelle Tan, NYC
July 23 / West Trestle reading series, Auburn City Hall, CA
August 10 / Literati Bookstore with Khadijah Queen (virtual)
August 18 / A Hundred Pitchers of Honey with Farnaz Fatemi and Joan Kwon Glass (virtual)
Sep 8 / 41 Ross in SF Chinatown
Sep 10 / The Make Out Room, Writers with Drinks (SF)
September 28 / White Whale (virtual) with Raena Shirali + Allison Pitinii Davis
Oct 4 / Kenyon College reading and workshop, Ohio
Oct 6 / Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University with Kathy Fagan and David Baker, Columbus
Oct 7 / Dewdrops in the Garden at Southern Exposure closing event (SF)
Oct 8 / Litquake Poetry World Series, 111 Minna (SF)
Oct 16 / Litquake Grace Cathedral with Amanda Moore, A.A. Vincent (SF)
Nov 2 / Portland Community College
Nov 3 / Margin Shift, Seattle
Nov 4 / YYB reading
Nov 5 / Portland Book Festival
National Book Foundation Presents: A Morning with the National Book Awards in conversation with Fatimah Asghar
Pop-up with Nina Packebush
Pop-up with NBA honored authors
In conversation with Tayi Tibble and moderator Genevieve DeGuzman
Nov 8 / Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History with David Baker
Nov 19 / Miami Book Fair: National Book Foundation Presents: An Afternoon with National Book Awards
Nov 19 /Miami Book Fair: “Kindred Poets”: Gregg Shapiro, Nicole Tallman, Julie Marie Wade
