Readings, Workshops, Class Visits . . .

If you would like to teach my work and/or have me visit as an editor or instructor, I am currently booking for Raised by Ferns, Fall 2026 and beyond. My rates vary. Please reach out via my contact form or publisher website.

UPCOMING EVENTS & APPEARANCES, 2026

June 2026

6/24, 6pm doors; 7pm reading: Garden party! reading and mingle with Margot Kahn and Maya Jewell Zeller. Entre Rios Books Headquarters, Seattle. DM for address/ info.

Chuckanut Writers Conference, Bellingham

Thursday, 6/25, 6:30PM: Conference Faculty Reading, Book Signing, and reception
Friday, 6/26, 11:15-12:15: Generative Workshop, “How to Start a Memoir by Writing Against Systems that Hold you Back”
Friday, 6/26, 6:30PM: Conference Faculty Reading and Book Signing
Saturday, 6/27, 10:15-11:15: Genre Fiction Panel with Glen Hirshberg, Sarah Hawley, Maya Jewell Zeller
Saturday, 6/27, 2:45-3:45: Generative Workshop, “Crossover Artists: Poets Writing Nonfiction”

July 2026

7/9, 9-10am: Witches in the Woods. Generative Writing Workshop with Sharma Shields. Riverside State Park, Spokane.

Port Townsend Writers Conference (Olympic Peninsula)

Sunday, 7/12, 7:30pm: Reading with Jamie Ford, Roger Reeves, Maya Jewell Zeller. Wheeler Theater, Fort Worden. Port Townsend. Free and open to the public.
Monday, 7/13, 2-3:30: Generative workshop, “Writing Against the Rules: How to Start a Memoir by Resisting Systems that Hold you Back.” Fort Worden. Register with PTWC.
Tuesday, 7/14, 2-3:30: Generative workshop, “Into the Tangle: The Braided Essay.” Fort Worden. Register with PTWC.
Friday, 7/17, 2-3:30: Generative workshop, “Crossover Artists: Poets Writing Prose.” Fort Worden. Register with PTWC.
Saturday, 7/18, 2pm: Faculty Book Signing and Reception.

MFA Residency Faculty (Colorado)

7/19-25: Western Colorado University MFA Residency (Faculty), Gunnison, CO.

August 2026

8/04, 6pm: LIT on the LAWN-With Laura Read, Sharma Shields, Erica Reid, Leyna Krow, and Maya Jewell Zeller. Wishing Tree Books. Spokane! CANCELED DUE TO WILDFIRES

8/20, 6:30pm: KUOW Book Club Event, in partnership with Seattle Public Library. Seattle.

September 2026

9/15, noon: READING, Raised by Ferns, North Idaho College. Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho.

October 2026

Visiting Author with Raised by Ferns at Whitworth University, Spokane

10/1, 4pm: Reading at Whitworth University
10/2, 1-4pm: Class Visit

Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series, Central Washington University, Ellensburg

10/6, noon: Craft Talk on “Mysteries & the Making of The Wonder of Mushrooms”
10/6, 5:30pm: READING and conversation on Raised by Ferns
10/7, 2pm: “Paths to Publishing”– on moving between poetry, creative nonfiction, general interest, hybrid, and craft texts; via ZOOM

10/16, 6amPSt/9amET: Write Wilmington on ZOOM; UNC Wilmington

November 2026

11/5, 6pm: Constellation Reading Series, with Chris Rose, PDX

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Upcoming 2027

University of Idaho, Visiting Writers Series (February; details TBD)

SELECTED PAST APPEARANCES

A conversation about Raised by Ferns with Jamie Ford at the Great Falls Public Library, March 2026

A reading for LitFUSE Tieton, Fall 2022

A reading from EVERGREEN: Grim Tales & Verses From the Gloomy Northwest

with co-editor Sharma Shields, and authors Beth Piatote, Joe Wilkins, and Alexander Ortega, as part of the Ars Poetica Series at Eastern Oregon University’s MFA, January 2022

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From November 2020, Reading for the Bad Mouth Reading Series

2021 Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, Reading with Jenny Boully & Jourdan Imani Keith, Wednesday, July 21, 2021

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2021 GetLit Festival, moderating two panels

Difficult Fruits, featuring Kate Lebo, CMarie Furhman, & Kathryn Nuernberger:

& Creativity in the Climate Crisis, featuring Robin Wall Kimmerer, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Johanna Stoberock: