Fall 2020/Winter 2021 Publications
"Bodily" and "Human Sound Station" (Poems) in Zyzzyva
"My Property" (Short Story) in Alaska Quarterly Review
Book Review in Diagram, 20th Anniversary Issue
Review of "Machine" by Susan Steinberg
Fundraiser Reading for Saint James Inn: "Home"
February 19, 2020
Performed reading of "Flight"
The Room, 1325 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA
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WordTheatre: "She" (With Michelle Latiolais)
June 3, 2019, 12 Noon
Performed readingsThe Federal, 5303 Lankersheim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA
https://wordtheatre.com/event/she/
Los Angeles Festival of Books 2017
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“The Women” at WordTheatre
Looking forward to having my story “Yes, Yes, Cherries” read by Emily Bergl at this event produced by WordTheatre (The Microsoft Center in Venice).
http://wordtheatre.com/event/the-women-love-lust-everything-in-between-american-style/
Zyzzyva reading at Diesel Books, Oakland
I look forward to reading at Diesel Bookstore in Oakland to celebrate the Winter Issue of Zyzzyva.
http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/oakland-release-party-zyzzyva-winter-issue-0
New publication in the Los Angeles Review of Books Fiction Issue
I’m thrilled to have new fiction, “Velocitation” in the Los Angeles Review of Books Fiction Issue.
http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/uncategorized/larb-fiction-issue/
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, What Shapes Us, panel moderator (Los Angeles, CA)
Commencement Speaker, UC Riverside Low-Residency MFA Program (Palm Desert, CA)
Hot Dish Reading Series, The Last Bookstore (Los Angeles, CA)
Los Angeles Review of Books, NoHo Lit Crawl (North Hollywood, CA)
Mo Pitkin’s Reading Series (New York, NY)
McNally Robinson Bookstore (New York, NY)
Noepe Center (Martha’s Vineyard, MA)
Honoring Pamela Moore, Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA)
Idyllwild Reading Series, sponsored by PEN (Idyllwild, CA)
Strange, Comic, Beautiful & Sad, Panel, The Writing Pad (Los Angeles, CA)
Armand Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
Silverlake Jubilee (Los Angeles, CA)
Powell’s Bookstore (Portland, Oregon)
Guadalajara Book Festival (Guadalajara, Mexico)
Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Sewanee, Tennessee)
826 LA Fundraiser (Los Angeles, CA)
Tin House Writers Reading Series (Los Angeles, CA)
Scripps College (Claremont, CA)
UCLA Writers Fair (Westwood, CA)
Reed College (Portland, OR)
Tin House Writers’ Conference (Portland, OR)
West Hollywood Book Fair (West Hollywood, CA)
Dutton’s Bookstore (Los Angeles, CA)
Book Soup (Los Angeles, CA)
Skylight Books, (Los Angeles, CA)
Vroman’s Bookstore (Pasadena, CA)
The New Short Fiction Reading Series (Beverly Hills, CA)
Beyond Baroque (Venice, CA)
Jim Ruland Reading Series (Los Angeles, CA)
Rhapsodomancy Reading Series (Los Angeles, CA)
Tongue and Groove Reading Series (Los Angeles, CA)
Shakti Reading Series (Los Angeles, CA)
KXLU Radio Station (Los Angeles, CA)
B’s Mountain of Books (Idyllwild, CA)
Libros Schmibros (Los Angeles, CA)
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November 2, 2021
Thrilled to announce that my novel, BURST, will be published by Zibby Books!
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2022
I'm looking forward to moderating Fiction: The Intersection of Art and Story at the Los Angeles Festival of Books on Sunday, April 24 at 3:30 pm with these wonderful writers: Shruti Swamy, Adrienne Celt, and Grace D. Li.
July 23, 2021
Thrilled to learn that two of my poems, "Absolution," and "In Praise of Anxious Souls" will be published in a forthcoming issue of Bennington Review. More details to come...
February 9, 2021
Virtual Reading at Vroman's Bookstore with David Ulin, Dana Johnson, Joe Donnelly, Steve Ryfle, and Oscar Villalon, Moderator
https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/group-reading-zyzzyva-la-issue