August 4, 6:30 pm
A reading with Why There Are Words-LA:  “A Radical Interpretation of Survival in Literature” with  David Ulin, Rachel Howzell Hall, Arminé Iknadossian, Carla Sameth, and Aatif Rashid
Los Angeles, CA

August 9, 8:00 pm
East Meets West: a reading with many LA-based writers; curated by Tanya Ko Hong
Beyond Baroque
Venice Beach, CA

August 25, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
celebrate our words / /  BAN THE WALLS
A reading celebrating Black Wings with Lisbeth Coiman, Jamie Asaye Fitzgerald, Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley, and Alicia Vogl Saenz and high school students Sofia Barrios and Minal Saldivar, as well as surprise guests including Lynn Harris Ballen, Diya Bose, Manuela Traude Gomez and Elline Lipkin
Pasadena Central Library
Pasadena, CA

September 8, 2:00 pm
Houston Noir reading
Sisters In Crime
South Pasadena Library
South Pasadena, CA

September 10, 12:15 pm
Black Wings reading and signing
Hampton Room, Scripps College
Claremont, CA

September 12, 7:30 pm
The WCCW Reading Series: Work & Labor
Women’s Center for Creative Work
Los Angeles, CA

September 16 (time TBA)
On Belonging installation
Scripps College
Claremont, CA

September 22, 5:00 pm
Black Wings discussion
MHC Southern California Book Club
(closed meeting)
Los Angeles, CA

October 6 (time TBA)
LitCrawl Los Angeles
With Womxn Write Inn: liz gonzález, Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley & Lisbeth Coiman
Los Angeles, CA

October 13, 4:00 pm
Roar Shack, curated by David Rocklin
Los Angeles, CA

October 17, 5:30 pm
Black Wings reading alongside Fan Wu
and liz gonzález
San Francisco Public Library
San Francisco, CA

October 19, 6:30 – 7:30 pm
LitCrawl SF,  with Womxn Writers Inc: Lisbeth Coiman, liz gonzález, Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley, Alicia Vogl Saenz
San Francisco, CA

October 27 & 28 (times TBA)
Texas Book Festival
Austin, TX

November 2 & 3, 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Multi-genre Inprint Intensive Workshop
Inprint, Inc
Houston, TX

March 3
Curated and co-hosted “Poetry for Peace,” an artistic response to rising violence in Kashmir, India
Pasadena Central Library, Pasadena, CA

March 6
Black Wings Pre-launch reading
Caltech University, Pasadena, CA

March 28
Black Wings pre-launch reading
Women Who Submit, Nucleus Portland, Portland, OR

March 29
Black Wings Book Launch alongside writers Mohamed Asem, Corinne Manning & Ramzy Farouki
Studio Faro Gallery, Portland, OR

March 29
An evening of poetry and prose with Macondistas
Portland State University, Portland, OR

March 31
Black Wings reading; conversation with Alka Kurian
Elliott Bay Book Company, co-sponsored by Tasveer, Seattle, WA

April 2
Black Wings reading alongside Nilofar Shidmehr
Burnaby Neighbourhood House, Vancouver, Canada

April 24
Featured writer at Rio Hondo College’s annual Rites of Spring Literary Festival
Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA

April 26
Black Wings reading; conversation with Neela Banerjee & introduction by Alicia Vogl Saenz
Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA

May 5
Black Wings reading; conversation with Liliana Valenzuela & introduction by Vicente Lozano
BookPeople, Austin, TX

May 6
Black Wings reading; conversation with Christa Forster & introduction by Jacquelyn Shah
Brazos Bookstore, Houston, TX

May 7 & 8
Panel and reading to celebrate the release of Houston Noir (edited by Gwendolyn Zepeda, Akashic Books) in which my short story “Railway Track” was published 
Murder by the Book & Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas.

May 9
Black Wings reading; conversation with Sonia Saldívar-Hull & introduction by Reggie Scott Young
Twig Book Shop, San Antonio, TX

May 14
Seeing Beyond Satire & Stereotypes: A conversation with Mohammad Hanif and Sehba Sarwar
PEN America, Pasadena, CA

May 18 & 19
Participation in LitFest Pasadena with Olga Garcia, Angelina Sáenz, Tanya Ko Hong & Veronica Reyes in a session entitled Lenguas Revoltosas: Writers of Color Disrupting Traditional Literary Zones; also in a panel that tackles “toxic masculinity,”
Pasadena, CA

May 26
Black Wings reading alongside liz gonzález
Gatsby Books, Long Beach, CA