Events
March 25, 2022: AWP Book Launch and Author Signing
AWP Bookfair, University of Massachusetts Press, Table T1355
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Convention Center
April 6, 2022: Philadelphia Launch Reading for Safe Places
Head House Books, 619 S. 2nd St., Philadelphia
6:30 pm (in-person event!)
May 21 - 22, 2022: Short Story Fest
Featured Author in annual festival celebrating the art of the short story.
Baltimore, MD and Virtual.
Reading and discussion of Safe Places with author Kathy Anderson, May 22, 2:30 pm.
Other Festival authors include Kate Folk, Morgan Talty, Caleb Tankersley, and more!
May 26, 2022: New York, NY: Author Signing, Book Culture
536 W. 112th St.
Signing copies of Safe Places at 5 pm!
June 2022: Writing Fellow in Residence, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Open Studio, June 4th: Presentation and discussion with Sweet Briar College Alumni
July 15, 2022: San Francisco, CA: Mechanics' Institute Library
Featured author in Writers' Lunch Series: Discussing Safe Places and the Art of the Short Story. In conversation with author Matthew Iribarne.
Virtual event, 12 pm PST
August 12, 2022: Ithaca Is Books Festival, Ithaca, NY
Featured author at Ithaca’s annual festival
Reading and discussion of Safe Places
Buffalo Street Books, 2 pm, in-person event!
August 22, 2022: Safe Places Featured in Necessary Fiction
This week’s featured Book Review! Padmaja Battani singles out the collection’s “drily comic” stories that explore “the oddities of human bonds and longings” and “evoke entire worlds.”
September 20, 2022: Brooklyn Writers Series, Brooklyn, NY
Threes Brewing in Gowanus, 7 pm
Reading in the BWS Fall Reading Series
October 8, 2022: Push to Publish Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Drexel University, In person
Speaker for panel on Submitting to Literary Contests, 1:15 pm
March 10, 2023: Seattle, WA AWP Conference 2023
Organizer/Moderator for panel “Journey to the Prize: Five Women, Five Prizewinning Debut Story Collections”
In conversation with fellow prizewinning fiction writers A.J. Bermudez, Leslie Kirk Campbell, Kate McIntyre, and Erica Plouffe Lazure! 1:45 - 3 pm
March 2023: Safe Places Announced as Finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award
Thrilled to be included on this year’s list of Finalists!
May 18, 2023: MacDowell Fellows in Philadelphia
Multidisciplinary gathering at Piazza di Bruno, 5 to 7 pm
June 2023: Safe Places Wins Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Award
Honored to be one of this year’s Medalists for outstanding short story collections!
December 4, 2023: Rosemont College, MFA Reading Series
Featured reader in the Fall series, 7:30 pm
Other Events Coming Soon!