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Upcoming Appearances

2023

February 16, 7pm ET: PEN/Faulkner Literary Conversation: Memoir | virtual – in conversation with Margo Jefferson and Isaac Fitzgerald; moderator: Bethanne Patrick

April 4, 7pm ET: Symphony Space: A Living Remedy book launch | New York, NY in-person / streaming – in conversation with Jasmine Guillory; performing artist TBA

April 20, 7pm PT: Powell’s Books | Portland, OR in-person – in conversation with Lydia Kiesling

more A Living Remedy tour info coming soon

 

Past Appearances

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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