TEACHING & SPEAKING

Since 2008, I have taught workshops and presented lectures at numerous conferences, colleges and literary centers, including:

Portland Book Festival * The Attic Institute, Portland * The Muse & the Marketplace, Boston * Lighthouse Writers, Denver * Writers Center, Baltimore * Mount Hood Community College * Clackamas Community College * Terroir Creative Writing Festival * Willamette Writers, Portland & Oregon Coast Chapters * Corporeal Writing, Portland * South Coast Writers Conference, Gold Beach * Write on the Sound, Everett, WA

MY MOST POPULAR TOPICS:

• Beyond Wikipedia: Research Hacks for Your Writing

• Perfecting Your First Two Pages: How to Keep Agents & Editors Reading

• Writing Outside the Box: Exploring Non-Traditional Structures for Your Stories & Essays

• The Ins & Outs of Publishing in Lit Journals: Rejection, Acceptance, and Everything In Between

SELECT SPEAKING & TEACHING GIGS

Terroir Creative Writing Festival: Speaker, BEYOND WIKIPEDIA: RESEARCHING YOUR CREATIVE NONFICTION ESSAYS, April 2023

 Lewis & Clark Alumni Association: TOTALLY GEN X, with Maria Webster, February 2023

The Writers Center Baltimore: CRAFT CHAT with Zach Powers, June 2022

Denver Women's Press Club: PLACE & POWER IN PARADISE, with journalist Donna Bryson, May 2019

BookBin, Salem, OR: PUBLISHING PANEL,  Indie Bookstore Day 2019

NonfictioNow Panel: NOT FROM AROUND HERE, with Sybil Baker, Sarah Einstein, Aaron Gilbreath & Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, 2018

Corporeal Writing: PERFECT YOUR FIRST TWO  PAGES  
How to Keep Your Reader Reading, October 2018

NonfictioNow Panel:  WRITING THE DIFFICULT OTHER: The Craft & Ethics of Putting Problematic People on the Page, 2015

AWP,  Seattle:  Panel: A BAG FULL OF GOD: FEMALE MEMOIRISTS WITH DADDY ISSUES, 2014

Lewis & Clark Gender Studies Symposium, Panel: BEYOND HOUSEWIVES AND WHORES: THE FUTURE OF WOMEN’S LITERATURE, with Cheryl Strayed and Lidia Yuknavitch, 2011

READINGS

KIDS IN AMERICA 2022 TOUR

Portland Book Festival, POP-UP,  Portland Art Museum, November 5

Broadway Books, Portland, with Aaron Gilbreath, September 29

PNBA Fall Trade Show, Tacoma, September 18

Coffee Talk; reading with Coffee & Grief, September 1

Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland, with Yuvi Zalkow & Jackie Shannon Hollis; August 16

Oldster Magazine, “How the F*#% Did We Get Here?” A conversation with Sari Botton, August 18

Sellwood Community House, July 14

Tattered Cover, Denver, with Wendy J. Fox, June 24

Powell’s City of Books, with Lidia Yuknavitch, June 15

VOLCANOES, PALM TREES, 
AND PRIVILEGE TOUR, 2019-20

Kona Bay Books, Kailua-Kona, HI

Roundabout Books, Bend, OR: with Jackie Shannon Hollis

 Broadway Books, Portland:

 Annie Bloom's Books, Portland: with James Eliot Jones

Third Street Books, Seattle: with Wendy J. Fox 

Hoffman Center for the Arts, Manzanita:  with Jennifer Haupt

Powell's City of Books: Launch of Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawai‘i,  April 16th, with Karen Karbo

Authors on the Map: ABA Spring Forum

Micropress Fair, Portland, OR: Book signing with Overcup Press, March

SELECT PAST READINGS

Forest Avenue Press Small Press Showcase: An AWP off-site event, Portland, March 28th, 2019; Organizer

Special Edition Unchaste With Zoe Zolbrod, Sarah Einstein, and Ariel Gore; Literary Arts, June 2016

BookBar, Denver: Baby’s on Fire; Reading With Wendy J. Fox, April 2016

Broadway Books: Baby’s on Fire; Reading with Lidia Yuknavitch, September 2015

Diesel Books, Oakland: Baby’s on Fire; Conversation with NYT Best Seller, Ellen Sussman, June 2015

Powell's City of Books Launch of Baby's On Fire, May 5th, 2015

Powell’s City of Books  Launch for The Night, and the Rain, and the River, 2014

In Other Words Bookstore “Who’s Your Mama?” (Soft Skull Press), April 2009