Upcoming Appearances
2026
Updates coming soon
Past Appearances
2025
December 4, 5pm ET: Bowdoin College | Brunswick, ME
October 18, 5pm ET: Politics and Prose | Washington, DC – in conversation with Megha Majumdar about her novel A Guardian and a Thief
October 1, 7pm ET: Lost City Books Fall Salon @ The LINE DC | Washington, DC – with Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, Issam Zineh, and Erin Cecilia Thomas
September 16, 7pm ET: Inner Loop reading featuring Nicole Chung | Washington, DC
June 7, 7pm MT: Lighthouse Writers Workshop visiting author reading | Denver, CO – with Claire Dederer, Katie Kitamura, and Solmaz Sharif
May 19, 7pm ET: Sixth & I | Washington, DC – in conversation with Ocean Vuong about his novel The Emperor of Gladness
April 2, 7pm ET: Politics and Prose | Washington, DC – in conversation with Elon Green about his book The Man Nobody Killed
March 22: Adoptee Literary Festival | virtual
March 8: Publish Now Conference @ The Writer’s Center | Bethesda, MD
February 8, 4pm PT: Tin House Winter Workshop faculty reading | online – with Nina LaCour, Camille Acker, Kawai Strong Washburn, and Chen Chen
2024
November 8, 7pm ET: Bluebird & Co. | Crozet, VA – in conversation with Leona Sevick
October 30, 7pm ET: The Cheuse Center presents Nicole Chung and Jimin Han @ Arts Club of Washington | Washington, DC
October 24, 7pm PT: Kern County One Book Project Author Keynote @ California State University Icardo Center | Bakersfield, CA
October 11, 7pm ET: Shore Lit visiting writer talk | Easton, MD – in conversation with Kerry Folan
June 5, 7pm CT: Subtext Books | St. Paul, MN – in conversation with Chris Stedman
June 4, 7pm ET: Tomorrow Bookstore @ IndyFringe Theatre | Indianapolis, IN – in conversation with Patrick Armstrong
May 19: American Writers Festival @ Harold Washington Library | Chicago, IL – with Lydia Millet and Donna Seaman
May 16, 7pm ET: People’s Book | Takoma Park, MD – in conversation with Clint Smith
May 9, 7pm ET: Asian American Writers Workshop | New York, NY – in conversation with Crystal Hana Kim, sponsored by Also-Known-As, Inc.
May 2, 7pm ET: East City Bookshop | Washington, DC – in conversation with Lupita Aquino
April 30, 7pm ET: Enoch Pratt Free Library | Baltimore, MD – in conversation with Danielle Evans
January 17: All There Is with Anderson Cooper
January 12, 7pm ET: Loyalty Bookstores | Washington, DC – in conversation with Jami Attenberg and Jennifer Close about Jami’s book 1000 Words
2023
December 7: Haverford College | Haverford, PA
November 18, 4:30pm ET: Miami Book Fair memoir panel | Miami, FL – with Alejandra Campoverdi, Ava Chin, and Prachi Gupta
November 4, 3:15pm PT: Portland Book Festival presents Going Home: Nicole Chung and Navied Mahdavian @ Portland’5 Winningstad Theatre | Portland OR
November 4, 1pm PT: Portland Book Festival pop-up reading @ Portland Art Museum | Portland, OR
October 24, 7pm ET: Loyalty Books | VIRTUAL – with When We Become Ours contributors Mariama J. Lockington, Mark Oshiro, Susan Harness, and Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom
October 21, 4:15 pm ET: The Lost Weekend Festival @ Greedy Reads | Baltimore, MD – in conversation with Jung Yun
October 17, 7pm CT: Club Book MN x Carver County Library | VIRTUAL – in conversation with Dr. Kim Park Nelson
October 13, 7pm ET: New Dominion Bookshop | Charlottesville, VA – in conversation with Taylor Harris
October 10, 6:30pm ET: Loyalty Books @ Cleveland Park Library | Washington, DC – in conversation with Bryan Washington about his novel Family Meal
September 21, 6pm PT: Nicole Chung at The Lodge at St. Edward State Park (fundraiser for the King County Library Foundation) | Kenmore, WA – in conversation with Karen Maeda Allman
September 20, 7pm PT: Third Place Books Lake Forest Park | Seattle, WA – in conversation with Kalani Kapahua
September 16, 1pm ET: AAPI Women Lead Author Talk | VIRTUAL – in conversation with Dr. Connie Wun
September 7, 7pm ET: Porter Square Books Boston Edition | Boston, MA – in conversation with Nicole Cliffe
August 19, 9:30am CT: Mississippi Book Festival memoir panel | Jackson, MS – with Shane McCrae, Ellen Ann Fentress, Lee Durkee, and moderator Stuart Rockoff
August 6, 11:30am ET: Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival author talk: A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung | Chilmark, MA – with moderator Merissa Nathan Gerson
August 5, 2:30pm ET: Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival memoir panel | Chilmark, MA – with Kwame Alexander, Christian Cooper, Michelle Miller, and moderator Emily Greenhouse
July 26, 8pm ET: Loyalty Bookstores | VIRTUAL – in conversation with Ruth Madievsky about her novel All-Night Pharmacy
July 21, 6pm ET: PEN Presents: K-Lit at Lincoln Center: A Conversation with Korean American Authors | New York, NY – with Min Jin Lee, Mary H.K. Choi, Eric Kim, and moderator Hannah Bae
June 29, 8pm ET: NAKASEC New Narratives | VIRTUAL – with Crystal Hana Kim and moderator Kyung B. Yoon
June 8, 7pm ET: Mark Twain House | VIRTUAL– in conversation with Tajja Isen
May 16, 6pm CT: American Writers Museum | Chicago, IL – in conversation with Nina Li Coomes
May 7, 2pm PT: Bay Area Book Festival presents Bridging the Distance: Nicole Chung and A Living Remedy | Berkeley, CA
April 22, 1pm PT: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books memoir panel: Stories from the Healthcare System | Los Angeles, CA – with Ruha Benjamin, Anthony Chin-Quee, Ricardo Nuila, and moderator Emily Alpert Reyes
April 20, 7pm PT: Powell’s City of Books | Portland, OR – in conversation with Lydia Kiesling
April 19, 7pm PT: Seattle Public Library | Seattle, WA – in conversation with Angela Garbes
April 13, 7pm ET: Curious Iguana @ Downtown Community Room | Frederick, MD – in conversation with Melody Schreiber
April 12, 7pm ET: Greedy Reads Remington | Baltimore, MD – in conversation with R. Eric Thomas
April 6, 7pm ET: Loyalty Books @ Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library | Washington, DC – in conversation with Kat Chow
April 4, 7pm ET: Symphony Space: A Living Remedy book launch | New York, NY – in conversation with Jasmine Guillory, with a performance by Nicole Kang
February 22–23: Winter Institute | Seattle, WA
February 16, 7pm ET: PEN/Faulkner Literary Conversation: Memoir | virtual – in conversation with Margo Jefferson and Isaac Fitzgerald; moderator: Bethanne Patrick
2022
October 25, 8pm ET: Loyalty Books | via Crowdcast – in conversation with Vanessa A. Bee about her memoir Home Bound
June 2, 7pm ET: Loyalty Books @ Jackie Lee’s | Washington, DC – in conversation with Jasmine Guillory about her book By the Book
April 28, 8pm ET: Loyalty Books | via Crowdcast – in conversation with Tajja Isen about her book Some of My Best Friends, with Megha Majumdar and Matt Ortile
April 27, 7pm ET: Columbia University Asian American Diasporic Writers Series | via Zoom – in conversation with Robin Ha about her book Almost American Girl
April 26, 7pm ET: Bowdoin College | via Zoom
April 13, 7pm ET: East City Books | Washington, DC – in conversation with Mary Laura Philpott about her book Bomb Shelter
April 9, 8pm ET: Adoptee Literary Festival Keynote | via Zoom – in conversation with Matthew Salesses
February 22, 8pm ET: PEN Out Loud x Asian American Writers’ Workshop | online – in conversation with Julie Otsuka about her novel The Swimmers
February 7, 6:30pm ET: Brooklyn Public Library | via Zoom – in conversation with Imani Perry about her book South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
January 18, 7pm ET: Books Are Magic | via Zoom – in conversation with Kendra James about her memoir Admissions
January 12, 8pm ET: The Strand | via Zoom – in conversation with Taylor Harris about her memoir This Boy We Made
2021
December 9, 6pm ET: New York Historical Society | via Zoom – in conversation with Frank Stebbins of Facing History
December 2, 7pm CT: StoryStudio Chicago memoir class | via Zoom
November 18, 7pm ET: University of Kentucky Visiting Writers Series | via Zoom – in conversation with Crystal Wilkinson and Shanita Jackson
October 20, 1pm ET: The New York Times | online
October 18, 7pm ET: Also-Known-As Inc. (open to adoptees only) | via Zoom – in conversation with AKA board member Katie Mantele
September 22, 7pm ET: National Book Critics Circle conversation | via Zoom – with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and Lacy Johnson, moderated by Ruben Quesada
August 28, 5pm ET: Politics and Prose at Union Market | online – in conversation with Kat Chow about her memoir Seeing Ghosts
August 25, 5pm ET: #AAJA21 Convention | online – with Andrew Chow, Time Magazine
July 20, 9am PT: LARB Publishing Workshop | via Zoom
July 11-17: Tin House Summer Workshop | via Zoom
July 15, 4pm PT/7pm ET: Tin House Summer Workshop conversation series talk with Crystal Hana Kim | via Zoom
June 30, 3pm ET: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program | via Zoom
June 22, 9pm ET: KAAN annual conference: Anti-Asian Hate + the Adoptee Experience | via Zoom – with Amanda Assalone and Kimberly McKee
June 15, 7pm ET: BOMB Magazine | via Zoom – in conversation with Jonathan Lee about his novel The Great Mistake
May 28, 7pm ET: ENTITY Book Club | via Zoom – in conversation with Leslie Zemeckis
May 26, 8pm ET: Korean American Story | via Zoom
May 25, 7pm ET: East City Bookshop | via Zoom – in conversation with Lilly Dancyger about her book Negative Space
April 30, 5:30pm ET: New Voices Literary Festival Reading | via Zoom
April 30, 12pm ET: New Voices Literary Festival: (Un)Belonging: Borders Real and Imagined | via Zoom – with Fernando Flores, Benjamin Garcia, and Souvankham Thammavongsa
April 30, 9am ET: Ithaca College class visit | via Zoom
April 28, 5:30pm ET: New Voices Literary Festival: The Short Short Reading | via Zoom
April 26, 7pm ET: Vassar College Asian Students’ Alliance | via Zoom – with Matt Ortile
April 17, 8pm ET: Loyalty Books AAPI Fundraiser with Asian Americans Advancing Justice – mini conversation with Min Jin Lee | via Crowdcast
April 1, 7pm CT: College of Lake County | via Zoom
March 25, 7pm ET: Cornell University Asian and Asian American Center | via Zoom
March 4, 8pm ET: Loyalty Bookstore | via Crowdcast – in conversation with Ada Calhoun, Taylor Harris, and Amber Sparks, moderated by Hannah Oliver Depp
February 25, 4pm ET: Harvard class visit | via Zoom
February 10, 7pm ET: Facing History memoir series talk | via Zoom
February 9, 6pm ET: Politics and Prose | via Zoom – in conversation with Rebecca Carroll about her book Surviving the White Gaze
January 30, 6:30pm MT: Keynote, Adoption Wellness Advocacy Knowledge and Experience (AWAKE) Forum | via Zoom
January 13, 8pm ET: PEN America workshop: Shooting Your Shot: Writing, Editing, Submitting | via Zoom
2020
November 10, 4:30pm PT: Mills College class visit | via Zoom
November 4, 2:30pm PT: St. Mary’s College of California MFA Program reading and Q&A | via Zoom
October 21, 2pm PT: St. Mary’s College of California MFA Program visit/talk | via Zoom
October 4, 5pm ET: Brooklyn Book Festival | via Crowdcast
September 27, 3pm ET: Adoptees Read Book Club | online
September 23, 7pm ET: Mae Fellowship talk | via Zoom
September 21, 2:30pm CT: University of Minnesota publishing course visit | online
August 15 & 22, 11am-12:30pm ET: Kweli International Literary Festival Memoir Workshop | via Zoom
August 4, 8pm ET: Bad Bitch Book Club | via Zoom
July 28, 2:30pm ET: Wave Learning Festival | via Zoom
July 24, 8pm ET: Transnational Literature Series, Brookline Booksmith, & Another Story Bookshop | via Crowdcast – in conversation with Jenny Heijun Wills, moderated by Mee Ok Das
July 17, 9am PT: LARB Publishing Workshop panel discussion | via Zoom – with Karolina Waclawiak and Boris Dralyuk
July 17, 10:50am PT: LARB Publishing Workshop breakout session | via Zoom
June 17, 5pm PT: Green Apple Books | via Zoom – in conversation with Matt Ortile and Cinelle Barnes about The Groom Will Keep His Name
June 2, 7pm ET: Books Are Magic | via Zoom – in conversation with Megha Majumdar about her debut novel A Burning
March 9, 5:30pm: Writers in Baltimore Schools/Johns Hopkins University Dept. of Writing Seminars | Baltimore, MD
February 22, 7am: Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience, Marriott Marquis Thurgood Ballroom West | Washington, DC
2019
December 10, 7pm: Howard County Library, Charles E. Miller Branch | Ellicott City, MD – in conversation with Tonya Aikens, President & CEO of Howard County Library System
November 19, 7pm: Loyalty Bookstore | Washington, DC – in conversation with Mo Moulton about their book The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women
November 4, 7pm: Third Place Books at Lake Forest Park | Seattle, WA – in conversation with Kalani Kapahua
November 5, 7pm: Broadway Books | Portland, OR – in conversation with Lydia Kiesling and Meaghan O’Connell
October 30, 7pm: Red Emma’s | Baltimore, MD – in conversation with Danielle Evans
October 22, 7pm: Strand Book Store | New York, NY – in conversation with Min Jin Lee
October 15, 7pm: All You Can Ever Know paperback launch at Loyalty Bookstore | Washington, DC – in conversation with Kat Chow
September 27, 7pm: One Book, One Tulsa Keynote, Central Library | Tulsa, OK
September 23, 6:30pm: East City Bookshop | Washington, DC – in conversation with Mariama J. Lockington about her novel For Black Girls Like Me
June 29, 12:45pm: Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network (KAAN) Conference keynote | Minneapolis, MN
June 2, 2:30pm: Books in Bloom Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion | Columbia, MD
May 14, 7pm: Northwest Passages Book Club, Bing Crosby Theater (tickets required) | Spokane, WA
May 11, 12:45pm: Wordplay Book Festival: Origin Stories, Guthrie Theater (McGuire Proscenium Stage) | Minneapolis, MN – with Dani Shapiro and Ed Bok Lee; moderator: Seonyeong Shin
May 4, 7pm: Politics and Prose | Washington, DC – in conversation with Susan Choi about her novel Trust Exercise
April 13, 1:30pm: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books panel: Memoir: Who We Came From and Who We Came to Be | Los Angeles, CA – with Rigoberto Gonzalez, Vanessa McGrady, and Sophia Shalmiyev; moderator: Samantha Dunn
April 6, 7:15pm: Orcas Island Literary Festival: Main Stage Event | Eastsound, WA – with readings by Featured Artists and a musical performance by Laura Veirs; reception to follow
April 6, 2:40pm: Orcas Island Literary Festival panel: The Ties That Bind: Memoirists on Writing About Family | Eastsound, WA – with Terese Marie Mailhot, Neal Thompson, and Cere Demuth; moderator: Theresa Harris
March 29, 3pm: #AWP19 Featured Event: Nicole Chung and Lisa Ko in Conversation, Oregon Convention Center (Oregon Ballroom 201-202), 2019 AWP Conference & Book Fair | Portland, OR – sponsored by PEN America
March 26, 7pm: Politics and Prose at Union Market | Washington, DC – in conversation with Bryan Washington about his book Lot: Stories
March 24, 1pm: Virginia Festival of the Book panel: National Book Critics Circle Presents: Outstanding Writing | Charlottesville, VA – with Tess Taylor and Marion Winik
March 22, 2pm: Virginia Festival of the Book conversation event: Nicole Chung, All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir, Crozet Madison-Jefferson Regional Library | Crozet, VA – in conversation with Taylor Harris
March 22, 10am: Virginia Festival of the Book panel: Family Love and Myth in Transracial Adoptions, Central Jefferson-Madison Regional Library | Charlottesville, VA – with Susan Devan Harness; moderator: Cassius Adair
March 14, 6:30pm: National Book Critics Circle Awards, The New School | New York City, NY
March 13, 6:30pm: National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists’ Reading, The New School | New York City, NY
March 7, 6:30pm: Drexel University, Ross Commons | Philadelphia, PA – in conversation with Beth Kephart; co-sponsored by Blue Stoop, Drexel University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, and the Writers Room at Drexel
March 4, 8pm: University of Maryland, Adele H. Stamp Student Union | College Park, MD
February 16, 4pm: East City Bookshop Galentine’s Day Celebration with Jasmine Guillory | Washington, DC
February 9, 6pm: Old Town Books Read Write Now Craft Talk at the Athenaeum | Alexandria, VA – in conversation with Carmen Maria Machado about her forthcoming memoir In the Dream House
January 27, 6pm: Solid State Books | Washington, DC – in conversation with Jamise Harper and Lupita Aquino, Lit on H Street Book Club
January 14, 7pm: One More Page Books | Arlington, VA – in conversation with Melody Schreiber, Nonfiction Book Club
2018
December 15, 5pm: Old Town Books | Alexandria, VA – Read Write Now memoir/craft talk followed by author Q&A
December 11, 7pm: The Wing | Washington, DC – in conversation with Kat Chow
December 6, 7pm: Loyalty Bookstore | Silver Spring, MD – in conversation with Hannah Oliver Depp
December 4, 7pm: The Ivy Bookshop | Baltimore, MD – in conversation with Ruth Tam
November 27, 6:30pm: American Writers Museum | Chicago, IL – in conversation with Rebecca Makkai
November 12, 7:30pm: Green Apple Books on the Park | San Francisco, CA – in conversation with Daniel Mallory Ortberg
November 12, 12pm: Stanford University | Stanford, CA
November 11, 5pm: The Ruby | San Francisco, CA
November 10, 7:30pm: Live Wire with Luke Burbank at Alberta Rose Theatre | Portland OR – with Abbi Jacobson, Peter Sagal, and Eileen Myles
November 10, 11:45am: Portland Book Festival panel: This Is America: Race and Family panel at First Congregational United Church of Christ | Portland, OR – with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Luis Alberto Urrea; moderator: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
November 10, 10:45am: Portland Book Festival pop-up reading in the Korean Art Gallery at the Portland Art Museum | Portland, OR
November 5, 7:30pm: Symphony Space | New York, NY – in conversation with Nicole Cliffe
November 2, 5:30-8:30pm: National Press Club Journalism Institute Book Fair & Authors’ Night | Washington, DC
October 27, 10:30-11:15am: Texas Book Festival panel: Meet the Indie Next Authors! | Austin, TX – with R. O. Kwon and Tommy Orange; moderator: Hannah Oliver Depp
October 22, 7pm: Porter Square Books | Cambridge, MA – in conversation with Celeste Ng
October 19, 7pm: Charlottesville Reading Series at New Dominion Bookshop | Charlottesville, VA – with poets Lindsay Bernal and Caitlin Neely
October 16, 7pm: Politics and Prose | Washington, DC – in conversation with Julie Buntin
October 11: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
October 10, 7pm: Asian American Writers’ Workshop | New York, NY – in conversation with Greg Pak
October 9, 7:30pm: Books Are Magic | Brooklyn, NY – in conversation with Alexander Chee
October 4, 7pm: Seattle Public Library, Central Library Branch | Seattle, WA – in conversation with Ijeoma Oluo
October 3, 7:30pm: Powell’s City of Books | Portland, OR – in conversation with Janice Lee
September 28, 5 pm: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Conference & Tradeshow | Tacoma, WA – keynote conversation with Karen Maeda Allman of Elliott Bay Book Co.
September 14, 7pm: Politics and Prose at Union Market | Washington, DC – in conversation with R. O. Kwon about her novel The Incendiaries
June 23, 2:30pm: American Library Association Annual Conference: Reads Like Fiction: Nonfiction You Can’t Put Down panel, Morial Convention Center | New Orleans, LA
May 31, 11:45am: BookExpo 2018: American Booksellers Association Presents Indies Introduce Authors, Javits Center, Downtown Stage | New York, NY
April 9, 6:30 pm: Kramerbooks | Washington, DC – in conversation with Kirstin Chen about her novel Bury What We Cannot Take
March 20, 7pm: Politics and Prose at the Wharf | Washington, DC – in conversation with Daniel Lavery about his book The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror
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