Appearances

2024 2023 2022 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

2024

June 7 – 9 • The Loft @ 50, Minneapolis, MN
April 8 • Path of Totality, Austin, TX
April 6 • College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
April 3 • YWCA, Princeton, NJ
March 26 • Poets & Writers Gala, New York, NY
March 23 • Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA
March 8 • Planned Parenthood MarMonte Peninsula Breakfast, San Jose, CA
March 6 • In Conversation with Tommy Orange, Barnes & Noble Union Square
March 1 • Queens Public Library, Virtual
February 29 • Center for Safety & Change, Rockland County, NY
February 15 • Roxane Gay Presents, Greene Space, New York, NY
February 13 • Everything But Dancing, Symphony Space, New York, NY
February 2 • Emma Goldman Clinic Fundraiser, Iowa City, IA
January 30 • Read On: Book Banning in America, New York, NY
January 17 • The Ripped Bodice w/ J. Vanessa Lyon, Brooklyn, NY

2023

November 17 • CEMEX Auditorium, Stanford, CA
November 12 • Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX
November 5 • Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, IL
November 2 • Verse & Vino, Charlotte, NC
October 28 • Porter Square Books, Boston, MA
October 25 • University Bookstore, Seattle, WA
October 24 • Booksmith, San Francisco, CA
October 23 • Keplers, Menlo Park, CA
October 22 • The Ripped Bodice, Los Angeles, CA
October 20 • Vromans, Los Angeles, CA
October 18 • Kindred Stories, Houston, TX
October 17 • Source Books, Detroit, MI
October 16 • Books Are Magic, Brooklyn, NY
October 13 • Charis Books, Atlanta, GA
October 12 • Sixth & I, Washington D.C.
October 11 • RJ Julia Booksellers, Madison, CT
October 10 • Symphony Space, New York City
October 9 • Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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