I'll be reading and chatting at the Wauconda Area Library along with Elizabeth Blackwell, author of While Beauty Slept. Books available for purchase and signing!

Tin House editor Rob Spillman will visit Chicago's legendary Book Cellar to discuss his new memoir, All Tomorrow's Parties -- and I'll be there to interrogate him in a friendly […]

Evergreen Park Library is hosting local authors as part of National Library Week on Saturday, April 16. Mystery authors Lori Rader-Day and Susanna Calkins will speak at 1 pm; I will speak at 2. Books […]

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I'll be in discussion with Brigid Pasulka, author of The Sun and Other Stars, at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. The library is billing this as a great night out for […]

For Independent Bookstore day, I'll be tending bar at The Book Cellar, serving up bloody Marys and mimosas. The bar is open from 11 to 1, but I'll likely get […]

I'll be participating in the 3rd annual Author After Hours event at Zion Benton Public Library. The first hour will be a dinner for the library's Short Story Contest Winners, and […]

I'll be teaching at this writers' conference in Seaside, Florida, along with Andre Dubus III, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Seth Brady-Tucker, and Matt Bondurant. Fellowships and scholarships are available... See the website […]

I'll be teaching at the first week of this two-week conference in Denver at the incredible Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Conference details available at the website. Public reading TBA. 

I'll be celebrating the paperback release of Music for Wartime at Boulder Bookstore with a 7:30 pm reading.