Upcoming Appearances
2021
January 30, 6:30pm MT: Keynote, Adoption Wellness Advocacy Knowledge and Experience (AWAKE) Forum | online
February 9, 6pm ET: Politics and Prose | online – in conversation with Rebecca Carroll about her book Surviving the White Gaze
February 10, 7pm ET: Facing History memoir series | online
March 25, 7pm ET: Cornell University Asian and Asian American Center | online
March 31, 3pm CT: College of Lake County writing workshop | via Zoom
April 1, 7pm CT: College of Lake County | via Zoom
April 8, 10:15am ET: Horace Mann School | online
April 28-30: Ithaca College New Voices Literary Festival | online
July 13, time TBD: LARB Publishing Workshop | online
Past Appearances
2021
January 15, 10:40am ET: Bard High School Early College Queens author talk | 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 – in conversation with Reagan Arthur, Erroll McDonald, and Luis Alberto Urrea, moderated by Suzanne Nossel
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
July 8, 1:30pm ET: PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools summer workshop visit | 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
March 6, 10am: PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools visit | Washington, DC
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
January 11, 12:30pm: PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools visit | Washington, DC
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
July 24, 10:30am: PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools summer workshop | Washington, DC
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
