Events
Upcoming Go Back and Get It Events:
November 9: Discussing Go Back and Get It at Amplify: Hedgebrook’s bookclub at 10 am PT. Register here for the live virtual meeting.
Past Events:
September 21: Alumna Instructor at Hedgebrook Writers Conference, Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA.
September 14: A panelist at the Mississippi Book Festival, Mississippi State Capital Building and Grounds, 400 High Street, Jackson, MS.
May 23: Speaking with Rooted Book Club about Go Back and Get It, their May selection, on zoom at 7 pm CT. Register here.
May 4: In conversation with Real American author Rachel Khong at the Montclair Literary Festival, Montclair, NJ at noon.
April 2: Reading at Drew University’s reading series, Writers@Drew, 36 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ in Mead Hall at 5pm.
February 29: Speaking at the Women’s Club of Glen Ridge, 219 Ridgewood Avenue, Glen Ridge, NJ at 7pm. Get tickets here.
February 20: Reading at Montclair High School's Community Read, 100 Chestnut Street, Montclair, NJ at 9am.
February 23: A conversation with Kim Coleman Foote, Maisy Card and Cleyvis Natera at Montclair Public Library, 50 S. Fullerton Ave., Montclair, NJ at 7pm. This is a fundraiser to support Friends of the Howe House. Get your tickets here.
February 8: A conversation with Laura Sims at the South Orange Public Library via zoom at 7pm.
February 9: A conversation with authors Kelly McMasters, Joanna Rakoff, Maggie Smith and Reema Zaman sponsored by The Rumpus during AWP2024 Conference, The Nighthawk, 1228 Baltimore Avenue, Kansas City, MO 5-7pm. Get tickets here.
January 17: Reading with Pen Parentis at the Writer’s Room, 740 Broadway, 6:30 pm.
January 27: Speaker at Reese’s Reading Roundtable, Theodore D. Young Community Center, White Plains, NY 12:30-3:30pm.
December 6: Speaker at the Ocean Springs Municipal Library, 525 Dewey Ave., Ocean Springs, MS, 5:30 pm.
December 7: A conversation with Jerid P. Woods at Baldwin&Co, 1030 Elysian Fields Ave., New Orleans, 6pm.
October 29: Speaker at the Morristown & Morris Twp. Library, 1 Miller Road, Morristown, NJ, 2pm.
September 20: Speaker at the Springfield Free Public Library, 66 Mountain Avenue, Springfield, NJ, 7pm.
June 21: A conversation with Lisa Weinert on The Narrative Healing Shine Series on Instagram Live, 12pm.
June 17: A conversation with writer Irvin Weatherby at the Schomburg Center Literary Festival, NYC, 3:45pm.
June 17: Speaker at the Juneteenth Festival of Morris County, Presbyterian Church of Morristown, NJ, 12:30pm.
June 15: Keynote speaker on the first night of Coming To the Table’s National Gathering, Waterfront Hotel, Oakland, CA, 7pm.
May 6: A conversation with author Benilde Little in person at Succeed 2Gether’s Montclair Literary Festival, co-presented by the Montclair Public Library’s Open Book/Open Mind series, Montclair, NJ 4:45pm.
April 16: A conversation with A Place Like Mississippi author and Guggenheim Fellow W. Ralph Eubanks in person at Politics and Prose, Washington D.C., 5 pm.
April 12: A conversation with Neruda in the Park author Cleyvis Natera at Watchung Booksellers, Montclair, 7pm. Watch it here.
April 6: A conversation with Ancestor Trouble author Maud Newton in person at The Strand, Manhattan, 7pm.
March 24 An NYU Creative Writing Program alumni reading at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 5pm.
March 14 The Pen Parentis Literary Salon online at 7pm.
January 3: I read from my memoir during the first week of Carlow University’s MFA Creative Writing residency in Pittsburgh.
As part of the History at Home virtual series, I'll be discussing Slavery's Descendants via zoom at the Montclair Historical Society, on Thursday, May 14th at 7 pm.
I"ll be discussing Slavery's Descendants with students and faculty at Baruch College on Thursday, February 13th at noon. (While this event is for the Baruch community, members of the public who wish to attend can contact DiversityeventsRSVP@Baruch.Cuny.edu.)
If you're near Medford, Massachusetts, join Catherine Sasanov and me when we discuss Slavery's Descendants at the Royall House and Slave Quarters on Wednesday, January 15th at 7:30 pm.
On Monday, December 9th, I'll be discussing Slavery's Descendants at Montclair High School's Center for Social Justice where students are spending the term studying racism with a focus on the 1619 project.
In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to be enslaved in what would become the United States, Jill Strauss and I will be speaking at Montclair Public Library on Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 at 7pm.
I'll be discussing Slavery's Descendants at Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, NJ on Thursday, June 6th, 2019 at 7pm.
Please join me.Jill Strauss and I will be speaking about Slavery's Descendants at the Association for Conflict Resolution Greater New York Chapter and CUNY Dispute Center at John Jay College on May 2, 2019. The event is free and open to the public. Please click the link for more information.
I'll be discussing Slavery's Descendants along with contributor Karen Branan, and New York Times columnist Rachel Swarns at the Montclair Literary Festival on Saturday, March 23rd.
To celebrate TueNight's 5 year anniversary, I'll be reading with other TueNight contributors at the Invisible Dog, 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn on Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 6:30pm. Proceeds will benefit VoteRunLead, an organization that supports women running for office.
In celebration of Black History Month, I’ll be discussing the photo that began the search for my paternal family’s history at the YMCA of Montclair, Geyer Family Branch, 159 Glenridge Avenue, February 22nd at 7:00pm.