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Upcoming appearances

• Instagram Live Conversation with Drew Broussard at The Golden Notebook, 4/19 at 11am MT/ 2pm ET
• Changing Hands (live event, Downtown Phoenix location), in conversation with Kalani Pickhart, 4/19, 6:30pm MT
• The Strand Bookstore (virtual), in conversation with Lynn Steger Strong, 4/20 at 4pm MT / 7pm ET
• Instagram Live Conversation with Robin Kall of Reading with Robin, 4/21 at 12:20pm MT / 3:20pm ET
• LA Times Festival of Books panel, "The Intersection of Art and Story" with Grace D. Li and Shruti Swamy, moderated by Mary Otis, 4/24 at 3:30pm
• Powell's City of Books in Portland Oregon (live event), in conversation with Meaghan O'Connell, 4/25 at 7pm PT
• Town Hall Seattle (live & virtual event), in conversation with Ruth Joffre, 4/27 at 7:30pm (books sold through Third Place Books)

Past appearances

• Southwest Word Fiesta: fiction reading and conversation with Brandon Hobson (October 23, 2021)
• Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace, a conversation on translation with Thomas Kitson, White Whale Bookstore (October 19 2021).
• Southwest Festival of the Written Word (October 4 - 6, 2019).
• Grinnell College, Writers @ Grinnell series (September 6, 2018).
• Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, WA (June 19, 2018).
• Changing Hands Bookstore (downtown Phoenix location) in Phoenix, AZ (June 14, 2018).
• Greenlight Books (Fort Greene location) in Brooklyn, NY in conversation with Rachel Fershleiser (June 11, 2018).
• Antigone Books in Tucson, AZ (June 8, 2018).
• Book Soup in Los Angeles, CA, in conversation with Edan Lepucki (June 6, 2018).
• Southwest Festival of the Written Word (September 29 - October 1, 2017).
• Residency, Jentel Arts (August 15 - September 15, 2017).
• Tucson Festival of Books (March 11 - 12, 2017). I was on 3 panels, and it was great fun.
• Distinguished Visiting Faculty member at Desert Nights, Rising Stars conference at Arizona State University, in Tempe, AZ (February 16 - 18, 2017).
• Writer-in-residence for the Pima County Library, funded through the State Library of Arizona (Summer 2016).
• Reading at the 2016 AWP Conference in Los Angeles, CA, on behalf of Arizona State University's MFA program and Hayden's Ferry Review (March 31, 2016).
• Tucson Festival of Books (March 12, 2016).
• Distinguished Visiting Faculty member at the Desert Nights, Rising Stars conference at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ (February 18 - 20, 2016).
• Arizona State University Art Museum, reading as part of the 30th Anniversary Gala for the ASU MFA program in creative writing (November 17, 2015).
• Antigone Books in Tucson, AZ (September 25, 2015).
• Third Place Books (Ravenna location) in Seattle, WA (September 18, 2015).
• Book Passage in San Francisco, CA (September 16, 2015).
• Green Apple Books in San Francisco, CA, with the marvelous Katie Coyle (September 15, 2015).
• Books Inc in Mountain View, CA (September 14, 2015).
• Google, Inc. Authors@Google talk! and Bodega Bay Tech Talk (September 14, 2015).
• Collected Works in Santa Fe, NM (September 3, 2015).
• Book Works in Albuquerque, NM (September 1, 2015).