2026

January 6 farewell event for my beloved Volumes books.

January 8, 15, 22 & 29—online seminar on the personal essay for StoryStudio.

Feb 21, 28 & March 7 & 14—online seminar on writing rage for Off Assignment with Maggie Smith, Carmen Maria Machado, Ashley Ford, and Dan Sinker.

March 24—online workshop on writing the body for The OpEd Project, more tk

May 12—reading for Pen Parentis, more tk

2025

January 21—Reading and Writing The Resistance w/ Rebecca Makkai, Parneshia Jones, Adrian Matejka, and Michael Zapata for StoryStudio at Women & Children First.

January 23—talking with Lisa Genova for the Ragdale Foundation.

February 15—telling a story for 2nd Story at the Davis Theater.

March 5—talking with Leslie Jamison at Women & Children First.

April, Saturday mornings, online—writing grief master class for Off Assignment with Samantha Irby, Lulu Miller, Matthew Salesses, and Vauhini Vara.

May 22—talking w/ Carmen Maria Machado for StoryStudio at the Newberry.

June 11—talking with Ashley Ford and Sonya Huber for NonfictioNOW.

June 11-14—teaching for the Yale summer writers’ workshop.

July 28—talking about the Sinead O’Connor book for the GMan Series.

August 17—talking about publishing for the StoryBoard Festival at the Newberry.

September 28 - October 5—teaching in at Rosemary’s House in Greece (!)

October 15—talking about Body Work for the Writers at Work series.

December 17—Sinead O’Connor birthday show at the Hideout.

Favorites.

Reading We Say and Do Kind Things for 2nd Story.

Talking with Esmé Weijun Wang for the Black Mountain Institute.

Talking with Melissa Febos and Kaveh Akbar for the Portland Book Festival in 2017 and continuing that conversation five years later for The Archive Project.

Working with brilliant high school writers at Interlochen.

Working with Humanities Without Walls.

Performing with the Lakeview Symphony Orchestra. Here’s a rehearsal.

Reading about doing ecstasy at the symphony for Poets & Writers Live.

A weird drunk ignite talk about bookshelves.

Yelling on the mic for the Paper Machete live news magazine at The Green Mill. I love you, Chicago.