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2023
- March 2 • Phelps Stokes Auditorium, Berea College
- March 9 • Usher Hall, Edinburgh
- March 11 • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
- March 12 • Royal Festival Hall, Southbank (WoW Festival)
- March 14 • Forum Alumni Auditorium, University of Exeter
- March 15 • The Forum, Bath
2022
- July 22 – 24 • Hear to Slay Live, Boone, NC
- July 7 • The Community Library, Ketchum, ID
- June 13 • Joe’s Pub
- May 27 • Rhetoric Society of America 20th Biennial Conference
- May 22 • School of Visual Arts Commencement
- May 14 • Douglass College, Rutgers University Commencement
- May 6 • Wave In Festival, Las Vegas
- April 28 • Institute for Women’s Policy Research Summit
- April 26 • Kent State University
- April 24 • TCM Film Festival
- April 23 • Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
- April 20 • Voices Lecture, Portland
- April 16 • Universe in Verse
- April 1 • 10th Annual Women Faculty of Color Conference
2020
- November 13-14 • University of Illinois Writers Festival
- September 27 • UC Davis
- September 22 • Teton County Library
- May 6 • HOW Design Conference
- April 5 • Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney
- April 2 • Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series | Detroit
- March 30-32 • University of Vermont
- March 27 • University of Connecticut
- March 21 • ASU West Phoenix
- March 18 • CSU Dominguez Hills
- March 14 • SXSW
- March 10 • Arlington Reads
- February 25 • University of British Columbia
- January 23 • University of Virginia
2019
- November 8 – 12 • Singapore
- November 2 • Planned Parenthood Kansas City
- November 1 • University of Minnesota Morris
- September 29 • Omega Institute
- September 27 • She Geeks Out
- September 17-19 • Reyjkavik
- September 5 • University of North Texas
- August 22-24 • Louisiana Festival, Copenhagen
- August 21 • House of Literature, Oslo
- July 13 • OpenAir Litteratur Festival Zurich
- June 4 • The Moth Ball
- June 1 • University of Maryland
- April 27 • Get Lit! Festival
- April 23-24 • Colby College
- April 13 • Los Angeles Times Book Festival
- April 17 • Depauw University
- March 22-31 • Australia/NZ
- March 21 • Hawaii Theatre Center
- March 10-12 • SXSW
- March 7 • Bunker Hill Community College
- March 5 • Yale University
- March 2 • On Air Fest
- February 27 • Hammer Museum/UCLA in conversation w/Tressie McMillan Cottom
- February 20 • Los Angeles/Event with Marlon James
- February 13 • University of Southern California
- February 7 • NYU MLK Week
- February 5 • Yale University
- February 1 • Colorado College January 25• Skidmore College January 22• Loyola University Maryland
2018
- December 10 • London December 2 • Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- November 29 • Ohio State University
- November 16 • Berkeley Law
- November 9 • Boston/TBA
- November 8 • Barnard College
- November 7 • Vassar
- November 6 • Bryn Mawr
- October 25 • UW Milwaukee
- October 19 • NYT Live!
- October 18 • CSU Channel Islands
- October 11, 12 • McGill University
- October 9 • Selected Shorts
- October 8 • JCC Manhattan
- October 5 • University of Nebraska Omaha
- October 4 • University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- September 27 • University of South Florida
- September 20 • Connecticut Forum
- September 14 • Mail Chimp
- September 13 • University of South Alabama
- September 10 • UC Berkeley
- September 1 • National Book Festival
- July 21 • Ozy Fest
- June 28 • Los Angeles – ALOUD, LA Central Library
- June 25 • Los Angeles – Barnes and Noble at The Grove
- June 21 • Seattle – University Bookstore at University Temple
- June 19 • The Book Cellar at City Winery
- June 14• Brookline Booksmith at Congregation KI
- June 13 • Politics and Prose at 6th and I Synagogue
- June 12 • Books Are Magic
- June 11 • NYPL Live!
- June 8 • PEN World Voices (in conversation with Isaac Fitzgerald)
- June 6 • 92 Y with Tayari Jones
- June 4 • Lambda Literary Awards
- June 2 • Otis College
- May 16 • The Women’s Fund, Columbus, OH
- May 3 • Planned Parenthood/St. Louis
- April 28 • Women of the World Festival
- April 24 • Pomona College
- April 21 • Untitled Town Book and Author Festival
- April 10 • Cal Arts
- April 7 • Minneapolis/St. Paul, The Fitzgerald Theatre with MPR
- April 6 • Grinnell College
- April 5 • Iowa State University
- April 4 • Mission Creek Festival
- April 3 • Northwestern University
- March 26 • Bowdoin College
- March 24 • The Power of Narrative Conference/Boston University
- March 23 • Quinsigamond Community College
- March 22 • Holy Cross University
- March 21 • Boston Museum of Fine Arts
- March 14 • Lannan Foundation / Santa Fe
- March 8 • Cal State Northridge
- March 6 • Florida State University
- March 2 • RISD
- February 17 • UC Riverside
- February 12 • Hammer Museum, LA
- February 8 • Western Kentucky University
- February 7 • St. Mary’s College
2017
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- November 11 • Renfrew Center 27th Annual Conference
- November 10 • Thomas Jefferson University
- November 2 • Smith College
- October 26 • Cal State San Bernardino
- October 25 • Tacoma Reads 2017
- October 19 • NPR’s Ask Me Another, Orlando
- October 5 • Towson University
- October 4 • Princeton University
- September 27 • INBOUND 2017
- September 9 • Second Flight Books
- September 2 • National Book Festival
- July 14 • Tattered Cover Colfax Avenue, Denver, CO
- July 13 • Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN
- July 12 • Octavia Books, New Orleans, LA
- July 11 • BookPeople, Austin, TX
- July 10 • Brazos Bookstore, Houston, TX
- July 8 • St. Louis County Library Headquarters, St. Louis, MO
- July 6 • Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Cincinnati, OH
- June 30 • Powell’s Books, Portland, OR
- June 29 • Copperfield’s Books at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA
- June 28 • Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park, CA
- June 27 • The Booksmith at African American Art & Culture Complex, San Francisco, CA
- June 26 • Aratani Theatre, Presented by ALOUD and The Library Foundation of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- June 23 • Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL
- June 22 • Charis Books and More Presser Hall at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
- June 21 • Avid Bookshop, Athens, GA
- June 20 • Washington D.C. Public Library / All Souls Church
- June 19 • Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, IL
- June 16 • Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, MI
- June 15 • Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN
- June 14 • Harvard Book Store at First Parish Books, Cambridge, MA
- June 13 • Greenlight Bookstore at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
- June 12 • Barnes & Noble Union Square, New York, NY
- June 3 • Bay Area Book Festival
- May 16–21 • Auckland Writers Festival
- May 9 • PEN USA Reading
- April 22–23 • Los Angeles Festival of Books
- April 5 • University of Buffalo
- March 23 • Enoch Pratt Free Library
- March 23 • ACRL National Conference, Baltimore
- March 22 • Philadelphia Free Library
- March 21 • Trinity University
- March 16 • The Appel Forum, Toronto Public Library
- March 15 • Reading, Women & Children First, Chicago
- March 10 • Gender Studies Symposium / Lewis & Clark College
- March 6 • Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures
- March 3–4 • Long Beach Festival of Writers / Literary Women
- February 24 • Tattered Cover, Denver
- February 23 • Metropolitan State University of Denver
- February 17 • Porter Square Books
- February 16 • Mount Holyoke
- February 15 • Williams College
- February 14 • Brown University
- February 11 • Politics & Prose
- February 4 • Second Flight Books
- January 28 • Winter Institute, Minneapolis
- January 25 • Indiana University
- January 24 • Indy Reads Books
- January 20 • Bookshop Santa Cruz
- January 19 • Powell’s
- January 18 • Skylight Books
- January 17 • North Central College
- January 12 • 92nd Street Y
- January 10 • Pen/Faulkner Reading, Washington D.C.
2016
- October 26 • Symphony Space
- October 20 • Purdue University
- October 17 • In the Company of Women event, Los Angeles
- October 6 • Iowa City, IA, Paul W. Engle Prize Ceremony
Coralville Library, 8 pm - October 4 • Willamette University
- September 22–23 • Hollins University
- September 21 • University of Richmond
- September 20 • MIT Media Lab
- September 13 • Hammer Museum, UCLA
- August 31 • Boise State University
- August 9 • Brooklyn Historical Society
- August 8 • Franklin Park Reading Series
- July 12–15 • Cal State University Summer Arts
- July 9–10 • Antioch Writers Workshop
- May 1 • PEN Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, NYC
- April 27–30 • York College
- April 6 • University of St. Thomas
- March 30 – April 2 • AWP, Los Angeles
- March 31 • Scripps College
- March 30 • Stanford University
- March 29 • St. Mary’s College of California
- March 25 • Phillips Exeter Academy
- March 24 • Phillips Andover Academy
- March 23 • Ball State University
- March 9 • Oakton Community College
- March 3 • University of Missouri
- March 2 • St. Louis University
- February 25 • IPFW
- February 1–2 • University of North Carolina Wilmington
- January 28 • Mankato State University
- January 19 • Butler University
2015
- December 3 • (TK)
- November 19–20 • The Northeast Ohio MFA
- November 6 • Chicago Humanities Festival
- October 30–31 • Nonfiction NOW, Northern Arizona University
- October 29 • Conversation with Gloria Steinem 7 p.m. at the People’s Church, 941 W. Lawrence Chicago, IL
- October 23 • Vancouver Writers Festival
- October 22 • Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal
- October 12–13 • University of Kentucky and Centre College
- October 8 • Ohio Library Council
- October 4 • The New Yorker Festival
- October 2 • Haverford College
- September 24 • University of Michigan
- September 21 • UCLA
- September 17–20 • The Givens Foundation, Minneapolis
- September 9–11 • Minnesota State University, Mankato
- September 5–7 • Decatur Book Festival / MailChimp Stage
- September 3 • Flannery O’Connor Foundation, Savannah, GA
- July 27 – AUGUST 10 • Black Forest Writing Seminars
- May 30 • Astoria Bookshop
- May 29 • Girls Write Now
- May 28 • TED Women
- May 11–14 • Northwestern’s Festival of Writing
- April 27 • Grossmont College
- April 16 • Appalachian State University
- April 8–11 • AWP, Minneapolis
- March 26–27 • University of North Dakota Writers Conference
- March 19 • Emerson College
- March 18 • Nassau Community College
- February 28 – March 10 • Adelaide Writers Week
Melbourne, Sydney Opera House - February 25 • Lakeland Public Library
- February 12 • College of William & Mary
- February 7 • IFOA Weekly
Toronto Harbourfront Centre - January 29–30 • Wooster College
- January 15 • Emma Willard School
- January 8 • University of Tampa
2014
- December 10 • Women Employed
- November 19 • Western Illinois University
- October 6 • University of Texas, Austin
- September 25 • City Lights
San Francisco, 7 pm - September 24 • Mrs. Dalloway’s
Berkeley 7:30 pm - September 23 • NYC, Harper Perennial 50th Anniversary
Housing Works, 7pm - September 22 • American Asian Writers Workshop
- September 21 • NYCBook Court, 7pm
- September 21 • NYC, Brooklyn Book Festival2pm, St. Francis College Auditorium
- September 13 • Fall for the Book, George Mason University
- August 29 • Left Bank Books, St. Louis
- August 27 • Women and Children First
Chicago, 7:30 pm - August 15 • Los Angeles, The Last Bookstore
- August 8 • Milwaukee
Boswell Books, 7 pm - August 7 • Ann Arbor, MI
Literati Bookstore, 7 pm - August 6 • Lansing, MI
Schuler Books, 7 pm - June 13–14 • Antioch University, Los Angeles
- May – June • An Untamed Tour
- April 26 • Columbus State Writer’s Conference
- April 21 • University of Pennsylvania
- April 18–20 • Little Grass Festival, Carbondale, IL
- March 27–28 • University of Southern California, Los Angeles
- March 21–24 • Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival
- March 18 • Story Week, Chicago
- March 14 • Fresno State University, Fresno, CA
- March 11 • Hamilton University
- March 6 • DePaul University
- February 26 – March 1 • AWP, Seattle, WA
- February 20 • Illinois College
- February 13 • Northeastern Illinois University
- January 3 – 12 • Lake Tahoe, NV, Sierra Nevada MFA Program
2013
- November 21 • University of Indianapolis
- November 7–10 • Sanibel Island Writer’s Conference
- October 23–26 • Ohio University
- October 18–19 • Hugo House
- October 1 • Grand Valley State University
- September 27–28 • Pygmalion Music Festival
- September 20 • Reading, Kansas State University
- July • Antioch Writers Workshop
- July • Midwest Writers Workshop
- February 14–16 • University of Tampa
- February 28 • Roosevelt University
- March 6 • Brown University
- March 6–10 • AWP Conference Book Fair, 10 AM – 5 PMAWP Panel: How To Lose Friends and Alienate Loved Ones:Exploitation vs. Documentation in Creative Nonfiction(B.J. Hollars, Roxane Gay!, Marcia Aldrich, Ryan Van Meter, Bonnie J. Rough)
- March 11–16 • Coal Royalty Chair Writers Series, University of Alabama
- April 5–6 • University of Dayton Litfest
- April 2–5 • Mission Creek Festival Writer in Residence
- April 6–8 • Reading & Workshop, University of Dayton LitFest
- April 29 • Reading, University of Miami
- May 11 • Reading, Folio Magazine Launch, Washington D.C.
- May 12 • Reading, Three Tents, Washington D.C.
- May 13 • Franklin Park Reading Series, Brooklyn
- May 14 • Reading with Jessica Valenti, KGB Bar
- May 18 • Brooklyn Lit Crawl
2012
- February 29 – March 3 • AWP Conference Bookfair, 10 AM – 5 PM
AWP Panel: Flash Points: Publishing Flash Fiction In An Evolving Landscape
AWP Panel: Literature and the Internet in 2012 - March 2 • Literary Death Match8:15 PM, Buddy Guy’s Legends
- March 14 • Reading, John Carroll University
University Heights, OH, Rodman Hall, 7 PM - March 23 • Reading / Pressgang / Booth Launch Party
Butler University, Efroymson Center for Creative Writing, 7 PM - March 30 • Reading / Blue Light Reading Series
Indiana University, Bloomington
April 27 • Innovative Women in Publishing
University of Colorado Boulder
May 20 • Reading, Sunday Salon, NYC
May 21 • Reading, Center for Fiction, NYC
May 23 • Reading, WORD Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
July 12 • Antioch Writer’s Workshop
August 6 • Word Lab at Indy Reads
Indianapolis, 7 PM
September 22 • Indi-Go Gallery
Champaign, 7 PM - September 27 • Electronic Corpse, as part of Chicago’s Social Media Week
Chicago Public Library, 11 – Noon - September 29 • Ninth Letter’s Word Harvest
Cowboy Monkey, 4 PM
October 3–5 • Michigan State University - November 1 • University of Dubuque
- November 1 • Arts Iliana Wordfest, Terre Haute, IN
2011
- February 2–5 • AWP Conference Bookfair, 10 AM – 5 PM
- February 3 • AWP Panel: The Future of the Book Review: How to Break In
Noon – 1:15 PM, Diplomat BR, OmniPANK / Annalemma / Mud Luscious Reading: Divination in DC, 7:00 PM - February 4 • AWP Panel: Hint Fiction: Stories that Prove Less is More3 – 4:15 PM, Virginia B, Marriott
- February 15 • Reading, 7 PM, Lake Forest College
- March 5 • Reading, 9 PM
Underbar, Chicago - April 2 • Reading, Mission Creek Festival, Iowa City
- May 7 • Reading, Stories & Beer6:30 PM, Indi-Go Gallery, Champaign
- May 10 • Quickies! Innertown Pub, Chicago
- June 13–23 • Visiting Writer, Northern Michigan University
- June 22 • Reading, Northern Michigan University7:30 PM, Pioneer Room B
- June 23 • Panel on Michigan writing
Peter White Library, Marquette, MI, 7 PM (UP Book Tour 2011) - July 18 • Midwest Exemplary Flash Education and Supermojomania Freakout Tour and Country Expo
Indianapolis, Big Car Gallery