2026

January 6—farewell event for my beloved Volumes books.

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

Feb 12—pub crawl.

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.

Feb 26—talking with Melissa Faliveno for City Lit.

March 24—online seminar on writing the body for The OpEd Project.

April 2—talking about the stories we’ll tell about Chicago in the future with Natalie Moore, Luis Urrea, José Olivarez and Angelica Davila at Haymarket House.

May 6—talking with Elizabeth Crane and Gina Frangello for the 40th anniversary of the Women’s Center at Northwestern University.

June 22—talking with Carvell Wallace as part of his online hybrid memoir class for Off Assignment.

October 4-11—teaching at Rosemary’s House in Greece (!) with Maggie Smith and Claudia Rankine (applications are open, you can come!).

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.