Upcoming Appearances
2019
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 13, 6:30pm: National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists’ Reading, The New School (66 West 12th Street) | New York City, NY
March 22, 10am: Virginia Festival of the Book: Family Love and Myth in Transracial Adoptions, Central Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (201 E. Market Street), McIntire Room | Charlottesville, VA – with author and fellow adoptee Susan Devan Harness
March 22, 2pm: Virginia Festival of the Book: Nicole Chung, All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir, Crozet Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (2020 Library Avenue) | Crozet, VA – in conversation with Taylor Harris
March 24, 1pm: Virginia Festival of the Book: National Book Critics Circle Presents Outstanding Writing, Central Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (201 E. Market Street) | Charlottesville, VA – with Tess Taylor and Marion Winik
March 26, 7pm: Politics and Prose at Union Market | Washington, DC – in conversation with Bryan Washington about his book Lot: Stories
March 29, 1:30pm: #AWP19 panel: Immortalizing Our Beloveds: The Risks and Rewards of Writing About Family, 2019 AWP Conference & Book Fair | Portland, OR – with Cinelle Barnes, Claire Dederer, and Neal Thompson; moderator: Adrienne Brodeur
March 29, 3pm: #AWP19 Featured Event: Nicole Chung and Lisa Ko in Conversation, sponsored by PEN America, 2019 AWP Conference & Book Fair | Portland, OR
April 5–7: Orcas Island Literary Festival | Eastsound, WA
May 4, 7pm: Politics and Prose | Washington, DC – in conversation with Susan Choi about her novel Trust Exercise
May 11–12: Wordplay Book Festival | Minneapolis, MN
May 14, 7pm: Northwest Passages Book Club (tickets required) | Spokane, WA
June 29, 12:45pm: Keynote – Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network (KAAN) Conference, DoubleTree Park Place Hotel | Minneapolis, MN
September 20, 7:30pm: Keynote – Kentucky Women Writers Conference, Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center (keynote is free and open to the public) | Lexington, KY
September 21, 9am: Kentucky Women Writers Conference: Memoir/craft discussion (with generative writing time), Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning (for conference participants only) | Lexington, KY
Past Appearances
2019
February 16, 4pm: East City Bookshop Galentine’s Day Celebration with Jasmine Guillory | Washington, DC – in conversation with Jasmine Guillory, author of The Wedding Date and The Proposal
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 (RSVP required) | Stanford, CA
November 11, 5pm: The Ruby (RSVP required) | 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 at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1126 SW Park Ave. | Portland, OR – with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Luis Alberto Urrea; moderated by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
November 10, 10:45am: Portland Book Festival pop-up reading in the Korean Art Gallery at the Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave. | Portland, OR
November 8, 7pm: Barnes & Noble | Medford, 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 at Eighth Street Tent, Congress & Eighth; book signing to follow | Austin, TX – with R. O. Kwon and Tommy Orange; moderated by 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 Kirsten Chen about her novel Bury What We Cannot Take
March 20, 7pm: Politics and Prose at the Wharf | Washington, DC – in conversation with Daniel Ortberg about his book The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror
