Upcoming Appearances
Wednesday, January 29, 2025—A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series (with Joel Peckham & Cat Pleska), Shawkey Dining Room, Memorial Student Center, Marshall University, Huntington, WV
March 20-22, 2025—Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN
Past Appearances
2024/2023
Wednesday, November 13, 2024—Visiting Writers Series, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 12 pm EDT—Wheeling Reading Series (with Rachael Peckham), Ohio County Public Library, 52 16th St, Wheeling, WV Hosted by West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman Video Recording
Saturday, October 5, 2024— 2024 Decatur Book Festival Poetry Stage, Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur, GA 30030 Video Recording
Monday, September 30, 2024—Poetry Series, University of Cincinnati Clermont, Batavia, OH
Friday, September 20-Sunday, September 22, 2024—South Dakota Festival of Books, Brookings, SD
Friday, Sept. 20 @ 10:15 a.m. – Writing Beyond Grief – The Oscar, Founders Recital Hall (101A)
Friday, Sept. 20 @ 4:30 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Oscar, Fishback Studio Theater (154)
Saturday, Sept 21 @ 2:00 p.m. – Grief, Time & the Moments that Make Us: A Reading from Burn – The Oscar, Classroom 109
Saturday, Sept. 21 @ 4:30 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Oscar, Fishback Studio Theater (154)
Thursday, September 19, 2024—Colloquim Series (with Lee Roripaugh), Farber Hall, University of South Dakota, Vermillion SD
Wednesday, September 18, 2024—Mount Marty University, Yankton, SD
July 18-21, 2024—West Virginia Writers' Workshop, West Virginia University, Morganton, WV
Thursday, July 18, 7:30 p.m. A reading with Sara Henning and John Manuel Arias—Colson Hall, room 130 (1503 University Ave.)
June 28-July 7, 2024—Summer 2024 MFA Reading Series, Sunday, June 30, 7:30 pm, Performing Arts Center, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV
June 7-9 2024—2024 Annual Spring Conference, West Virginia Writers, Inc., Cedar Lakes Conference Center, 82 FFA Dr., Ripley, WV 25271, Ripley, WV
Saturday, June 1, 2024—National Writing Project Summer Institute, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 7-8:30pm ET—New Book Celebration & Reading-Conversation with Kai Coggin, Lynne Thompson, Lisa Fay Coutley, Anna Leahy, & Sara Henning, sponsored by Tabula Poetica, the Center for Poetry at Chapman University, Orange, CA [Virtual]
Friday, May 17, 2024, 7 pm EDT—Women Speak Anthology Reading, Women of Appalachia Project, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH Hosted by Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour
Thursday, May 16, 2024, 7-8 pm EDT—Spoken & Heard Series (with Angela Jackson-Brown) [Virtual] Hosted by Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour
Saturday, April 27, 2024—“The Moments That Make Us: Writing Grief, Joy, and Healing Through Poetry” (workshop), Kanawha County Public Library
Dunbar Branch (10:30-12:30 pm EDT), 301 12th St, Dunbar, WV
Main Library (2 pm-4 pm EDT), 123 Capitol St., Charleston, WV
Friday, April 26, 2024 2-3 pm EDT—Authors Read Aloud, Cabell County Public Library, 455 9th St, Huntington, WV
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 5-7 pm EDT—Poetry on the Plaza, Kanawha County Public Library, 123 Capitol St., Charleston, WV
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 6:15 pm CDT—Lincoln University (with Ron Austin), Pawley Theater, Martin Luther King Building, Jefferson City, MO
Friday, April 19, 2024, 6 pm EDT—West Virginia Writers, Inc. Launch Reading (with Joel Peckham), Cicada Books, 604 14th St W, Huntington, WV
Monday, April 15, 2024, 7:00-8:30 pm EDT. Writers Can Read Open Mic and Reading Series, Heritage Station (210 11th Street downtown), Huntington, WV
Saturday, April 13, 2024, 2-5 pm EDT—Launch Reading, Booktenders, 621 Central Ave, Barboursville, WV
Saturday, April 6, 2024, 1-3pm EDT—Women Speak Anthology Reading, Women of Appalachia Project, Loyal Jones Appalachian Center (Stephenson Hall), Berea College, Berea, KY Hosted by Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour
March 7-9, 2024—Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
Saturday, February 10, 2024, 9:00-10:15 am (CST). “Vision & Re-Vision: Teaching Revision in University & Community Workshops,” AWP Conference (Kansas City, MO), Location: Room 2101, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
January 1, 2024—West Virginia Wesleyan Visiting Writers Series (Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing), Buckhannon, WV Video Recording
February 23, 2023—Little Kanawha Reader Series, Glenville State University, Glenville, WV Video Recording
2022
November 8, 2022—June Elizabeth Tate Memorial Author Series, Concord University, Athens, WV
October 27, 2022—Literally Speaking, hosted by the Vermillion Literary Project, University of South Dakota [Virtual]
October 20, 2022—Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, IN
September 6, 2022—Fall 2022 Visiting Writers Series, Brevard College, Brevard, NC Video Recording
April 14, 2022—Echoes and Visions Reading Series, Wor-Wic Community College, Salisbury, MD [Virtual]
April 5, 2022—Magers & Quinn Booksellers (with Cyrus Cassells and Jenn Givhan), Minneapolis, MN [Virtual]
March 31, 2022—South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD
March 30, 2022—Augustana University, Sioux Falls, SD
March 29, 2022—Dakota State University, Madison, SD
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2021
February 27, 2021—Crab Orchard Review Reading Series (with Josh Woods), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL [Virtual] Video Recording
February 6, 2021—Acceptance Reading, Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, Paterson, NJ [Virtual]
Video Recording
January 27, 2021—Sundress Reading Series (with Chloe Martinez and Joanna Eleftheriou) [Virtual]
Video Recording
2020
November 24, 2020—Wild & Precious Life Series (with Seema Reza, Emma Trelles, & Dare Williams) [Virtual]
Video Recording
Saturday, November 14, 2020—The Rural Speculative: a Reading, South Atlantic MLA [Virtual]
November 13, 2020—Scandalous Poets! Reading, South Atlantic MLA [Virtual]
November 10, 2020—University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, Fort Smith, AR [Virtual]
October 15, 2020—South Dakota in Poems book launch, South Dakota Festival of Books [Virtual]
Video Recording
July 3, 2020—Secluded: a Virtual Writing Conference, Burlesque Press [Virtual]
January 2, 2020—Appearance on “In the Moment,” with Lori Walsh, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Sioux Falls, SD
Video Recording
2019
November 11, 2019—Nilsen Visiting Writers Series, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO
October 5, 2019—South Dakota Festival of Books (with South Dakota Poet Laureate Christine Stewart), Deadwood, SD
October 2, 2019—Great Plains Writers Tour, Mount Marty College, Yankton, SD
October 1, 2019—Phil Hey Reading Series, Briar Cliff University, Sioux City, IA
July 16-28, 2019—Sewanee Writers’ Conference, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
April 18, 2019—Poetry Society of America Annual Awards Ceremony, New York, NY
April 16, 2019—University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
March 16, 2019—Poets in Print Series (with Marcus Jackson), Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, MI
February 21, 2019—Poetry Reading, University of Louisiana-Monroe, Monroe, LA
January 31, 2019—James Hoggard Reading Series, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX
2018
November 15-16, 2018—Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
October 24-26, 2018—Devil's Kitchen Fall Literary Festival, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
April 7, 2018—“Neo-Confessional Poetics in the Twenty-First Century,” College English Association, Saint Petersburg, FL
2017
February 23, 2017—Visiting Faculty Poetry Reading. Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
February 22, 2017—Pegasus Reading Series. Kettle Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
February 9, 2017—RHINO Launch Party and Reading. AWP Conference, Washington, DC
2016
October 29, 2016—John R. Milton Writers' Conference, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
October 27, 2016—University of South Dakota Alumni Reading. John R. Milton Writers' Conference, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
April 26, 2016—Yankton Federal Prison Camp. National Endowment for the Arts' Interagency Initiative with the Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Prisons, Yankton, SD
April 22, 2016—Tumbleweed Graduate Reading Series. University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
April 21, 2016—Corroborations Exhibition Reading. University of South Dakota Art Galleries, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
April 8, 2016—South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD
February 25, 2016—Literary Festival. Vermillion Literary Project, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
2015
November 20, 2015—"Writing What's Difficult: Prose Poetry, Hybridity, and the Language of Trauma." The Writing Club, Wayne State College, Wayne, NE
November 19, 2015—Plains Writers Series. Wayne State College, Wayne, NE
November 12, 2015—Visiting Writers Series. Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, SD
October 10, 2015—"Prairie Fire: A Reading and Discussion of Midwestern Feminism(s)." Steel Pen Creative Writers' Conference, Indiana Writers' Consortium, Merrillville, IN
October 9, 2015—"The Darkness in the Body That Redeems: a Reading of Poetry." First Friday Wordsmiths, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN
September 25, 2015—Women & Children First Bookstore, Chicago, IL
September 24, 2015—Six Points Reading Series, Poetry Center of Chicago, Chicago, IL
June 7, 2015—Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Saturday, April 11, 2015—Offsite #AWP15 reading of Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence, Minneapolis, MN
April 10, 2015—Lavender Ink/Gold Wake Press Reading, Minneapolis, MN
April 10, 2015—“The Bigness of the Small Poem,” with Sandy Marchetti, Vandana Khanna, & Erin Elizabeth Smith. 2015 AWP Conference & Book Fair, Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, MN
April 9, 2015—Offsite #AWP 2015 RHINO Launch Party and Reading, Minneapolis, MN
April 8, 2015—Festival of Language 2015, Minneapolis, MN
March 8, 2015—Sundress Academy for the Arts Reading Series, Knoxville, TN
February 22, 2015—Taproom Poetry Series, Lawrence, KS
2014
November 16, 2014—Poetry and Pints Reading Series, Grand Rapids, MI
November 13 - 16, 2014—“Fabricating the Body” panel with Sarah Hemsel-Burcon, Laura Madeline Wiseman, and more. MMLA, 56th Annual Convention, Detroit, MI
October 11, 2014—Women Write Resistance Reading, Indiana Writers' Consortium's 2014 Creative Writing Conference and Book Fair, Merrilville, IN
October 10, 2014—Women Write Resistance Reading. Off-site Event for Indiana Writers' Consortium's 2014 Creative Writing Conference and Book Fair, Purdue University, Hammond, IN
September 13, 2014—Women Write Resistance Reading, Omaha Lit Fest, Omaha, NE
September 2, 2014—Wit Rabbit Reading Series, Chicago, IL
August 29, 2014—RHINO Reads! Poetry Series, Evanston, IL
August 18, 2014—River Styx Hungry Poet Reading Series, St. Louis, MO
August 17, 2014—Poets in the Parlor Reading Series, Vachel Lindsay Home State Historic Site, Springfield, IL