Event Schedule
2026
January 31 - Long Beach, MS
Homegrown Festival: A Writer’s Exchange, Panelist on Southern Memoirs
March 4-7 - Baltimore, MD
AWP Conference, Reading and Panel Presentations
March 19 - Thibodaux, LA
Guest Speaker, Nicholls State University
2025
March 2-8 - Havana, Cuba
Cuba Center Visit: Teaching and Reading at the University of Havana
March 20-21 - Boston, MA
Suffolk University/Ford Poetry Center Speaker, Reading and Discussion
March 26-30 - Los Angeles, CA
AWP Conference, Reading and Panel Presentations
April 17, 5:30 p.m. - New Orleans, LA
Blue Cypress Books, Reading and Conversation with Nicole Graev Lipson
June 11-13 - Notre Dame, IN
NonfictioNow Panelist on “Hermit Crab Harder,” “Snacks & Naps,” and “Women’s Rage as Craft Tool”
June 29, 10 a.m. - Santa Clarita, CA
Vermont College of Fine Arts Visiting Writer in Creative Nonfiction, Reading and Signing
August 22, 6:00 p.m. - Columbus, GA
Carson McCullers House, Visiting Guest Speaker
October 1-2 - Auburn, AL
Visiting Writers Series Guest Speaker, Auburn University
September 18 - Florence, AL
Visiting Writers Series Guest Speaker, University of North Alabama
November 21 - New Orleans, LA
Words and Music Festival, Panel Moderator for “The Art of Traumedy”
2024
Friday, February 9 - Kansas City, MO
BLVD Tavern, AWP 2024
Saturday, April 7 - Baton Rouge, LA
Delta Mouth Festival, LSU French House, 6 p.m.
Friday, April 12 - Tuscaloosa, AL
Ernest & Hadley Booksellers, Book Signing and Launch, 5:30-7 p.m.
Thursday, April 18 - Tuscaloosa, AL
Pure Products Reading Series, Black Warrior Brewing Co., 6 p.m.
Sunday, April 28 - Birmingham, AL
Thank You Books, Reading and Signing, 2-4 p.m.
Saturday, June 22 - New Orleans, LA
Blue Cypress Books, Reading and Signing, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Sunday, June 23 - New Orleans, LA
The Domino, LMNL Reading Series, 6-7 pm
September 6-8 - Orange Beach, AL
Alabama Writers Cooperative Conference
September 20th-22nd - Asheville, NC
Punch Bucket Literary Festival, Reading and Signing
October 19-20 - Tuscaloosa, AL
Kentuck Arts Festival, Featured Presenter, Reading and Signing
October 24-26 - Columbus, MS
Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Mississippi University for Women, Featured Presenter, Reading and Signing
November 2nd - Baton Rouge, LA
Louisiana Book Festival, Featured Author, Reading and Signing
November 18th - Fresno, CA
Fresno State Visiting Writer w/ Taylor Brorby, Reading and Signing
December 12th - Montgomery, AL
New South Bookstore, Featured Author with Jason McCall, Reading, Conversation, and Signing
December 14th - Tuscaloosa, AL
Ernest & Hadley Bookstore’s 8 year Celebration, Featured Author, Reading and Signing
