Details on public reading to come.

As part of the Chippewa Valley Book Festival, I'll be giving a craft talk at the Altoona Public Library called "When Good Characters Go Bad." (7 pm, Tuesday, October 16th.) Information on my talk is here, and general information on the conference is here.  

I'll be discussing The Borrower in Omaha for the Mountain Plains Library Association and Nebraska Library Association's annual conference. It is their "One Book, Many Librarians" pick, and the discussion will be at 4:00 pm. If you are already a librarian in Nebraska, you probably don't need me to link to the festival, but I'm […]

I'll be appearing at the Meacham Writers' Workshop in Chattanooga, on Thursday, October 25th, at 7 pm. Joint reading with Tom Balazs and Earl Braggs in the Chattanooga State Health Science Center.  

As part of the AWP conference, I'll be moderating a panel called "Bring out Your Dead: Writing Ghosts (and Zombies) in Literary Fiction." Join me and Lauren Groff, Tea Obreht, Alexi Zentner and Tim Horvath on Friday the March 8th, from 4:30 to 5:45, in Room 206 on Level 2 of the Hynes Convention Center […]

My panel "Master of None: Surviving and Thriving Without an MFA," will be on Saturday the 9th, from 3:00 to 4:15, in Room 101 on the Plaza Level of the Hynes Convention Center. I'll be joined by Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Samuel Park, Ru Freeman and a mystery guest!

I'll be reading, along with others, at the Black Rock Bar (3614 N. Damen, Chicago) for StoryStudio Chicago's takeover of the Sunday Salon! This will likely be my first-ever reading from the just-completed second novel.

I'll be reading at Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca at 5:00 p.m., along with several other writers involved with the Ithaca College New Voices Festival.

I will be reading at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY, as part of the first annual New Voices festival, along with Sheba Karim, Robin Ekiss, and Nathaniel Rich.

On Tuesday, May 14th, I'll be teaching a one-night class at StoryStudio Chicago. "The Blind Date" is, alas, not a matchmaking party, but a brainstorming workshop. Come set your abandoned, lovelorn, rejected story ideas up with each other and make narrative magic! Details are right here.