September 6, 2019, 7:00 pm
Poetry reading, LIKE HOME:
poetry in response to displacement
Avenue 50 Studio
Los Angeles, CA

September 8, 2:00 pm
Houston Noir reading
Sisters In Crime-LA
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 – 27
On Belonging installation
Interactive session, 9/16 Noon onward 
Scripps College
Claremont, CA

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

October 1, 2019, 7:30 pm
The New/Old Show
Tuesday Night Project
alongside FandangObon, Taz Ahmed, Ginto Seeds, Kid In the Middle
Los Angeles, CA

October 6, 2 pm
LitCrawl LA
With Womxn Write Inn
Los Angeles, CA

October 13, 4:00 pm
Roar Shack presents
“Third Wind”
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 Write Inn
San Francisco, CA

October 21, 4:00  pm
Black Wings reading;
Q&A with Parama Roy
University of California-Davis
Sacramento,  CA

October 26, noon & 4:00 pm
Texas Book Festival
Panels featuring Black Wings & Houston Noir
Austin, TX

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

November 5, Noon – 2 pm
“Women Writers Unite”
Reading and panel discussion
Cal State-Bernadino
San Bernadino, CA

March 2020 (time TBA)
AWP panel: Making Place in Hybrid Tongues
with Torsa Ghosal, Sorayya Khan, Minerva Laveaga, and Nadia Misir
San Antonio, 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

August 4 
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
East Meets West: a reading with many LA-based writers; curated by Tanya Ko Hong
Beyond Baroque
Venice Beach, CA

August 25
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