UPCOMING READINGS, RESIDENCIES, TEACHING, EVENTS:
January 7-11, 2024: Key West Literary Seminar, Memoir Workshop, Key West FL
April 11-13, 2024: Festival of Faith and Writing, Calvin University, Grand Rapids MI
May 24-June 2, 2024: Good Contrivance Farm Writer's Retreat, Visiting Writer, Reisterstown MD
June 23-28, 2024: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown MA
August 5-11, 2024: Vermont Postgrad Writers' Conference, Champlain College, Burlington VT
RECENT READINGS AND EVENTS (2020/2021):
January 17-20, 2020: Winter Prose & Poetry Getaway, Galloway, NJ
March 23, 2020, 7PM, Live conversation via Zoom: Books are Magic, Brooklyn, NY, with Susan Choi
March 25, 2020, 6PM EST, Livestream via Zoom: Homebound, A Virtual Lecture Series for Triangle House with Emma Copley Eisenberg, Samantha Irby, Cathy Park Hong, Daniel M. Lavery, Sierra Crane Murdoch, E. Eric Thomas
March 27, 2020, 5PM EST, Livestream via Zoom: East End Books, Provincetown MA
April 2, 2020, 8PM EST, Livestream via Zoom: Readings by Writers
April 3, 2020, 7PM EST, Livestream via Zoom: Murphy Writing of Stockton University
April 7, 2020, 7PM CST (8PM EST): Facebook Live Event: Reading in Groups
April 9, 2020, 6:30PM EST, Livestream via Zoom: Blue Stoop, Philadelphia, PA, with Carter Sickels
April 14, 2020, 7:30PM EST, Livestream via Zoom: The Center for Fiction, Brooklyn NY, with Andrea Lawlor
April 15, 2020, 4:00PM EST, Livestream via Zoom: Image Journal
April 21, 2020, 7PM, via CrowdCast and Facebook Live: House of Speakeasy, Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, New York, NY, with Chavi Eve Karkowsky and Jeff Sharlet
April 25, 2020, 8PM EST, via Instagram Live: Twenty Stories, Providence, RI, with Genevieve Hudson and C Pam Zhang
April 26, 2020, 2PM EST, via Instagram Live: Brazos Books, Houston, TX, with Lisa Olstein
April 27, 2020, 7PM, via Zoom: Franklin Park Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY, with Carter Sickels, Matt Ortile, and Camille Perri
May 2, 2020, 8PM via Zoom: LIC Reading Series Five Year Anniversary, Queens, NY
May 13, 2020, 7PM, Zoom: Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA, with Deborah Lott
May 28, 2020, 6PM PST, Zoom: Seattle Arts and Lectures, Seattle CA, moderating a panel with Corinne Manning, Kristen Millares Young, and EJ Koh
June 12, 2020, 7PM EST, Zoom: Books are Magic, Brooklyn, NJ, a conversation with Genevieve Hudson about her book BOOKS OF ALABAMA
June 23, 2020, 7PM EST, Crowdcast: Harvard Book Store, Boston, MA, with Deborah Lott
June 25, 2020, 7PM CST, Crowdcast: Women and Children First, Chicago, IL, with Garth Greenwell
June 27, 2020, 7PM EST, Zoom: AsburyBookCooperative, Asbury Park, NJ, with Corinne Manning
July 14, 2020, 6PM PST, Zoom: Napa Bookmine/Napa Valley Book Festival, Napa, CA, with Deb Olin Unferth
July 21, 2020, Zoom: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA: A Book Party for LATER and a conversation with Elizabeth McCracken, featuring Polly Burnell, Oren Sherman, and Petey.
July 29, 2020, 6:30PM EST, Zoom: Stonewall National Museum and Archives, Fort Lauderdale, FL, in conversation with Hunter O'Hanian
August 10-14, 2020: 24 Pearl Street, A Weeklong Intensive On Urgency: A Memoir and Creative Writing Workshop, Provincetown, MA
August 24, 2020: Writing By Writers, A Craft Workshop: Dismantling the House: Endings as Beginnings
September 30, 2020, 12:40PM: SUNY Adirondack, Queensbury, NY
September 30, 2020, 7PM: Book Club Bar, New York, NY, a conversation with Nick Flynn about his book THIS IS THE NIGHT OUR HOUSE WILL CATCH FIRE
October 3, 2020, YouTube (pre-recorded): Collingswood Book Festival, Collingswood, NJ
October 14, 2020: DePaul University, Chicago, IL (class visit)
October 21-24, 2020: Writing by Writers at Tomales Bay, Marshall, CA
October 22, 2020, 5PM PT: Writing by Writers, a reading with Pam Houston
November 5, 2020: University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (class visit)
November 19, 2020: Washington University, St. Louis, MO (class visit)
December 2, 2020: Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, NJ, with Micaiah Johnson
January 14-18, 2021: Winter Prose & Poetry Getaway, Galloway, NJ
February 1, 2021: Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY, in conversation with Julie Carrick Dalton about her book WAITING FOR THE NIGHT SONG
February 10, 2021, 8PM EST: CNF'n Happy Hour, with Brendan O'Meara
February 12-14, 2021: Juniper Institute Master Class, Amherst, MA
March 27, 2021, 1:00PM EST: Reading Queer, Miami, FL
April 13, 2021, 7:30PM EST: Center for Fiction, Brooklyn, NY, a conversation with Elizabeth McCracken about her book THE SOUVENIR MUSEUM.
April 21, 2021, 10:00AM: Grub Street Muse and the Marketplace, Boston, MA
June 8, 2021, 6PM PT: The Booksmith, San Francisco, NY, a conversation with Matthew Clark Davidson about his book DOUBTING THOMAS
June 23, 2021, 7PM: Firecracker Awards (Presenter), Center for Fiction, Brooklyn, NY
June 30, 2021, 7:30PM ET: Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY, a conversation with Chaney Kwak about his book THE PASSENGER
July 7, 2021, 7PM CST: StoryStudio, P.J. Seminar, Chicago, IL
July 8-18, 2021: A Public Space, Brooklyn, NY, hosting the #APSTogether Book Club on Twitter for Qiu Miaojin's NOTES OF A CROCODILE
July 13-17, 2021: Cherry Tree Young Writers' Conference Online, Washington College, Chestertown, MD
July 20, 2021, 7PM ET: A Public Space Zoom Event for NOTES OF A CROCODILE #APSTogether
July 28, 2021, 7PM ET: Wildsam Cape Cod and the Islands, Wildsam Field Guides, Austin, TX (on line)
August 6, 2021: Foglifter's Queer Home CookOUT Tour, Pete's Candy Store, Brooklyn, NY (in person, cancelled)
August 9-13, 2021: 24 Pearl Street/Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, MA, a weeklong workshop ON URGENCY: WRITING MEMOIR/CREATIVE NONFICTION THROUGH A QUEER LENS
September 10-12, 2021: Queens University, Charlotte, NC (online)
September 17-19, 2021: Provincetown Book Festival, Provincetown, MA (in person)
October 19, 2021: Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY, a conversation with Anne Elizabeth Moore about her book GENTRIFIER (in person)
November 12, 2021: Changing Hands Bookstore, Phoenix, AZ, a conversation with Marco Wilkinson about his book MADDER (virtual)
March 6-11, 2022: Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA, Visiting Writer, Public Reading March 8 (in person)
March 23-26, 2022: AWP Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Featured Presenter (in person/online)
April 24-May 1, 2022: Write On, Door County, Fish Creek, WI Visiting Writer (in person)
July 17-22, 2022: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, MA (in person)
July 18, 2022, 6PM: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, a reading and Q/A with Major Jackson and Joanne Dugan (in person)
August 17-27, 2022: Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Ripton, VT (in person)
September 13, 2022: Head House Books, Philadelphia, PA, a conversation with Elisa Gabbert about her book NORMAL DISTANCE
September 16, 2022: Rose Dorothea Award Reading/Award Reception, Provincetown Library, Provincetown, MA
October 17-21, 2022: West Virginia University, Sturm Writer, Morgantown, WV
November 9-13, 2022: Writing by Writers Manuscript Bootcamp, Soquel, CA
April 13-14, 2023: University of Chicago, The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Lauren Berlant Memorial Lecture, Chicago, IL
June 3, 2023, 7PM ET: Strand Bookshop, with Sarah Schulman and Daniel Allen Cox, a Panel on Friendship to celebrate the launch of Daniel's memoir, THE END BEFORE IT CAME, New York, NY
June 18-24, 2023: Kenyon Review Summer Online Workshops
June 27, 2023, 1-4PM: 24 Pearl Street Sprint Workshop (online)
July 9-14, 2023: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, MA
July 10, 2023, 6PM ET: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, a reading and faculty talk with James Stroud, Provincetown, MA
READINGS AND EVENTS (2016-2019):
January 16, 2016, 6PM: Politics and Prose, Washington, DC, in conversation with Richard McCann
January 21, 2016, 7PM: Community Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY, in conversation with A.N. Devers
January 22, 2016, 7PM: Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room, Philadelphia, PA
January 29, 2016, 7PM: Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, MI, in conversation with Sarah Messer
February 4, 2016, 7PM: BookPeople, Austin, TX, in conversation with Elizabeth McCracken
February 8, 2016, 7PM: Brazos Books, Houston, TX, in conversation with Michael Snediker
February 10, 2016, 7PM: Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, NJ, with Meghan Daum
February 12, 2016, 7PM: Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
February 16, 2016, 7PM: Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, New York, NY, in conversation with Meghan Daum
February 24, 2016, 730PM: Powell's Books, Portland, OR
February 26, 2016, 630PM: Bookswap event at The Booksmith, San Francisco, CA
March 2, 2016, 7PM: College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
March 5, 2016, 6PM: Big Blue Marble Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA, with Sara Majka
March 8, 2016, 530PM: Rutgers University-Newark (Introduction, Elizabeth McCracken), Newark, NJ
March 15, 2016, 6PM: Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room, Philadelphia, PA, with Garth Greenwell
March 17, 2016, 7PM: Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN, with Garth Greenwell
March 19, 2016, 3PM: Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Chicago, IL, with Garth Greenwell
April 2, 2016, 130PM: Graywolf Press Reading at AWP Los Angeles, with Percival Everett, Dana Gioia, Jennifer Grotz, and Diane Seuss, introduced by Fiona McCrae
April 7, 2016, 6PM: Mission Creek Festival at Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, IA, with Garth Greenwell
April 9-10, 2016: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, CA
April 12, 2016, 7PM: Biello Martin Studio, Philadelphia, PA, with Gregg Shapiro
April 14, 2016, 7PM: Malaprop's Bookstore, Asheville, NC
April 16, 2016, 4PM: CityLit Festival, Baltimore, MD, in conversation with Jen Michalski
April 17, 2016, 11AM: Bethesda Literary Festival, Bethesda, MD
April 19, 2016, 7PM: West Chester University, West Chester, PA
May 3, 2016, 7PM: The Four Way Books Annual Benefit at Poets House, New York, NY
May 10, 2016, 8PM: LIC Reading Series, Queens, NY, with Robin Black and Amy Brill
May 12, 2016, 6PM: Inkwood Books, Haddonfield, NJ
May 16, 2016: Graywolf Press Benefit, New York, NY
June 11, 2016: Printers Row Lit Festival, Chicago, IL
June 18, 2016, 2PM: Conjunctions Reading at Penn Book Center, Philadelphia, PA
June 25, 2016, 730PM: Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Amherst, MA, a reading with Joy Williams
June 27, 2016, 7PM: Strand Book Store, New York, NY, with Christopher Bollen, Brad Gooch, Garth Greenwell, and Darryl Pinckney
July 12, 2016, 7PM: Second Tuesday Lecture Series, LGBT Center, New York, NY, with Garth Greenwell
August 1, 2016, 630PM: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, MA, with Sari Wilson and Josh Neufeld
September 16-17, 2016: Provincetown Book Festival, Provincetown, MA
September 22, 2016: Austin Community College, Austin, TX
October 13, 2016: Desk & Moonlight: A Celebration of Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry, New York, NY
October 14-16, 2016: Brattleboro Literary Festival, Brattleboro, VT, with Dani Shapiro
October 19-23, 2016: Writing By Writers Workshop @Tomales Bay, Marshall, CA
October 26, 2016: Warren County Community College, Washington, NJ
October 30, 2016: #BeforeIDie Samaritan Hospice at Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood, NJ
November 2, 2016: Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
November 5, 2016: Austin Lit Crawl, Austin, TX
November 6, 2016: Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX
November 10, 2016: Tire Fire Series at Tattooed Mom, Philadelphia, PA
November 16, 2016: Utica College, Utica, NY
November 19-20, 2016: Miami Book Fair, Miami, FL
December 30, 2016, 630PM: East End Books, Provincetown, MA
February 8-11, 2017: AWP Conference, Washington, DC, Featured Presenter
February 18, 2017: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, MA
February 24, 2017: Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
February 28, 2017: University of Pennsylvania/Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia, PA
March 8, 2017: Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
March 30, 2017: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
April 10, 2017: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
April 20, 2017, 7PM: New York University, New York, NY, with Marie Howe
April 23, 2017: EWOA Series, Sacramento, CA
April 26, 2017, 7PM: The 2017 Triangle Awards Finalists Reading, New York, NY
April 27, 2017, 7PM: The 2017 Triangle Awards, The New School, New York, NY
April 28, 2017: Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY
May 5-7, 2017: Grub Street Conference, Boston, MA
June 2-4, 2017: NonfictioNow Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland
June 18-25, 2017: Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Amherst, MA
July 9-16, 2017: Tin House Summer Workshop, Portland, OR
July 17, 2017: McNally Jackson Books, New York, NY, in conversation with Victoria Redel about her novel BEFORE EVERYTHING
July 30-August 4, 2017: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, MA,
July 31, 2017, 6PM: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, reading with Reif Larsen and Marian Roth
September 24, 2017, 5PM: Pigeon Pages Series, PowerHouse Books, Brooklyn, NY, with Nick Flynn
November 6, 2017, 7PM: Book Culture, New York, NY, in conversation with Matthew Lansburg about his collection OUTSIDE IS THE OCEAN
February 26-March 2, 2018: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL (workshop)
March 1, 2018, 7PM: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL (reading)
March 7-10, 2018: AWP Tampa, Tampa, FL
March 8, 2018: 7:30-11PM Wine and Words, AWP Offsite Reading at Jet City Espresso and Wine Cafe, Tampa, FL, with Alexander Chee, Jared Yates Sexton, Rion Amilcar Scott, Steph Post, Ruth Awad, Eric Shonkwiler, Tabitha Blankenbiller
April 6-8, 2018: Grub Street Muse and the Marketplace Conference, Boston, MA
April 11, 2018, 7PM: Rutgers University-Camden (publishing panel moderator), Camden, NJ
April 18, 2018, 7PM: Mixer Series at Our Wicked Lady, Brooklyn, NY
April 25, 2018, 7PM: Publishing Triangle Awards (presenter), New York, NY
June 23, 2018, 7:30PM: Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Amherst, MA, a reading with Mitchell S. Jackson and Dara Wier
July 13, 2018, 5-7PM: Provincetown Arts Magazine event (featured writer), Provincetown, MA
July 26, 2018, 7PM: A Scoundrel Time Evening of Poetry, Prose and Art, at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY, with Karen Bender, Carolyn Ferrell, Daisy Fried, Mary Gaitskill, Hillary Jordan, Alissa Quart, Dana Sachs, Robert Anthony Siegel, Joan Silber, Peter Trachtenberg
August 7, 2018, 6PM-8:30PM: Oysters and Opera for Provincetown Arts, A Fundraiser, Truro, MA
August 15, 2018, 6PM: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown MA (reading in addition to teaching 1 week summer workshop in nonfiction, August 12-17)
October 15, 2018, 6:30PM: Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA, with Katie Ford
October 28, 2018, 12:30PM: Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, moderating the panel "Boys to Men" with Jamel Brinkley and Nick White
November 1-3, 2018: NonfictioNOW Conference, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
December 6, 2018, 7PM: University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
January 21, 2019: Guernica Magazine's Memoir Monday at Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY
February 4, 2019: BookPeople, Austin, TX, in conversation with Elizabeth McCracken about her novel BOWLAWAY
February 7, 2019,12:45PM: Salon Series, Writers House at Rutgers-Camden, Camden, NJ, in conversation with Abby Reed Meyer
February 19, 2019, 6PM: Blue Stoop, Philadelphia, PA, with Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
March 1-4, 2019: Tin House Winter Novel Workshop, Newport, OR
March 16, 2019: Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
March 27-30, 2019: AWP Conference, Portland, OR (two panels)
April 6, 2019: William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
April 17-19, 2019: University of Nebraska-Kearney, Kearney, NB
April 23, 2019, 7PM: Lambda Finalists Reading (for Foglifter Magazine) at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, New York, NY
May 15, 2019: Graywolf Literary Soiree, New York, NY
May 20, 2019: American Short Fiction Series at The Line, Austin, TX, with Rebecca Makkai
May 23, 2019, 7PM: Cannery Reading Series, Philadelphia, PA
June 27, 2019, 7PM: Pride Reading at Center for Fiction, Brooklyn, NY, with Andrea Lawlor, Jordy Rosenberg, and Jean Kyoung Frazier
June 30-July 5, 2019: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, a workshop as part of Memoir/Creative Nonfiction Intensive Week, Provincetown, MA
July 1, 2019, 6PM: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, a reading with Melissa Febos along with visual artist James Everett Stanley
August 5-7, 2019: Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, a workshop in short prose forms, Truro, MA
August 28, 2019, 7PM: Writer's Block Bookstore & Cafe, Anchorage, AK
August 29, 2019, 6:30PM, Kachemak Bay Campus KPC, Homer, AK
August 30-September 1, 2019: Tutka Bay Writers' Retreat, Homer, AK
September 20-22, 2019: Corporeal, Portland, OR
September 25, 2019: Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn NY, in conversation with Lara Prescott about her novel The Secrets We Kept
October 23, 2019: Tables of Contents, Brooklyn, NY
READINGS AND EVENTS (2015):
--January 9, 2015, Red Sofa Series, Philadelphia, PA
--February 3, 2015, Intermezzo Series, Tucson, AZ, with Richard Siken
--February 22, 2015, Pen and Pencil, Philadelphia, PA, with J.C. Todd and Megan Gillespie
--March 12, 2015, TireFire Series, Tattooed Mom, Philadelphia, PA, with Robin Black, Meakin Armstrong, others
--March 31, 2015, SELFISH, SHALLOW, SELF-ABSORBED anthology reading, Housing Works Bookstore, New York, NY, hosted by Meghan Daum with Anna Holmes and Laura Kipnis
--April 8-11, 2015, AWP Minneapolis
--April 9, 2015, ELJ (Elm Leaves Journal) reading at Magers and Quinn, Minneapolis, MN
--April 9, 2015, Denver Quarterly group reading, Minneapolis, MN
--April 11, 2015, The Groveland, Minneapolis, MN, with Jonis Agee, Jim Cihlar, Greg Hewett, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Bill Reichard, Christopher Tradowsky, Michael Walsh.
--May 7, 2015, Four Way Books Reading at BGSQD, New York, NY, with Andrea Cohen and Patrick Donnelly
--May 9, 2015, COLLAGE Festival, Philadelphia, PA
--May 31, 2015, Giovanni's Room, Philadelphia, PA, with Matthew Hittinger, Dean Kostos, Kelly McQuain, and Jim Provenzano
--June 2, 2015, Drexel University (classroom visit), Philadelphia, PA
--June 16, 2015, Bloomsday Celebration, Philadelphia, PA
--June 21-27, 2015, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Amherst, MA
--June 2015, Rutgers University-Camden Summer Writers Conference
--July 10, 2015, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown: an Interview with Elizabeth McCracken
--October 14, 2015, The Hatchery Reading Series at Bobby's Bar, Philadelphia, PA
--October 15, 2015, BMCC Working Writers Reading Series, New York, NY
--October 28-31, 2015, NonfictioNow Conference, Flagstaff, AZ
--November 7, 2015, PBQ Reading at Cafe Bardot, 2-1-5 Festival, Philadelphia, PA
READINGS AND EVENTS (2012-2014):
--Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
--Washington College, Chestertown, MD
--Atlantic Cape Community College, Mays Landing, NJ
--Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD
--Divining Divas Event, Chicago, IL
--Wild (Cheryl Strayed/Dear Sugar) Event at Housing Works, New York, NY
--Fence Fiction Event at Housing Works, New York, NY
--Fiction Addiction Series, New York, NY
--Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA
--Giovanni's Room, Philadelphia, PA
--American University, Washington, DC
--Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, MA
--Miami Book Fair, Miami, FL
--Litter Series, New York, NY
--TireFire Series, Philadelphia, PA
--Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV
--Readings at Google, New York, NY
--Couplet Series, New York, NY
--Rutgers University (Introduction, Mary Gaitskill), New Brunswick, NJ
--Four Way Books Reading at AWP Conference, Boston, MA
--Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ
--Bureau of General Services--Queer Division, New York, NY
--Four Way Books Benefits, New York, NY and Millbrook, NY
--Conversations and Connections, Philadelphia, PA
--Poetdelphia Series, Philadelphia, PA
--Literary Death Match, Philadelphia, PA
--Fordham University, New York, NY
--Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA
--She Has a Name (Kamilah Aisha Moon) Launch at Dumbo Sky, Brooklyn, NY
--Community Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY (Launch reading for Conjunctions' Menagerie issue)
--ShelfLife Series, Brooklyn, NY
--Painted Bride Quarterly Series, Philadelphia, PA
--Anthology reading, Sam's Tavern, Seattle, WA
--Queertopia 2, Part 2, Seattle, WA
--Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
--Folio Launch reading, Washington, DC
--Rutgers-Camden Summer Writers Conference, Camden, NJ
--University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA