November 9-10, 2024
Civic District, Singapore
Singapore Writers Festival
Panel discussions
June 11-17, 2024
Ripton, VT
Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College
Workshop and faculty lecture/reading
May 23, 2024
Umbertide, Italy
Civitella Ranieri
Fellows’ Individual Presentations
w/ Zoya Laktionova
6pm CEST
May 2, 2024
Umbertide, Italy
Civitella Ranieri
Fellows’ Brief Presentations
6pm CEST
February 22, 2024
Bangkok
Chulalongkorn University: World Literature and Creative Writing
Panel discussion
1pm ICT
February 12, 2023
Radio/online
BBC The Cultural Frontline: Fiction and our Climate Emergency
Discussion with Peter May, Bijal Vachharajani, and host Tina Daheley
0am GMT
October 25, 2022
New York, NY
Words Without Borders Gala
Literary Host with other writers and translators
6pm EST
September 27, 2022
Brooklyn Book Festival
Center for Fiction
“Environmental Storytelling” with Kerri Arsenault, Bathsheba Demuth, Leigh Newman, Morgan Talty
6pm EST
August 13, 2022
Long Island City, NY
Artbook MOMA PS1
“Six Endings” reading
3pm EST
July 22, 2022
Online lecture
One Story Summer Conference
“On the Crafting of Place”
2:45pm EST
June 22, 2022
Virtual event
Point Reyes Books
w/ Amy Brady, Tajja Issen, and Lidia Yuknavitch for The World As We Knew It (anthology)
7pm PST
June 13-19, 2022
Ripton, VT
Faculty member (fiction)
Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College
June 14, 2022
Video appearance
Orion Magazine 40th Anniversary Celebration
Time: 6pm
May 9, 2022
Brooklyn, NY
BBC World Book Café
w/ Elaine Hsieh Chou, Crystal Hannah Kim, Jen Lue, Matt Ortile, and presenter Michelle Fleury
Time: 700pm
April 21, 2022
Hartford, CT
Trinity College A.K. Smith Scholar Series
“Earth Stories: Writing Climate Change” panel with Chantal Bilodeau, Amy Brady, Martin Espada; workshop: “The Narrative Shape of Things to Come”
Time: 430pm
March 23-26, 2022
Philadelphia, PA
AWP Conference
“Migrants Through Time” panel with Julia Fine, Marc Fitten, Tim Horvath, Rebecca Makkai
Time: 145pm
November 13, 2021
Singapore (virtual)
Singapore Writers Festival
“Concrete Jungle” panel with Rina Garcia Chua, Esther Vincent Xueming, Olivia Choong
Time: 10am
November 6, 2021
Paris, France
Librairie le Phenix
Time: 5pm
October 29 – November 1, 2021
Nantes. France
Utopiales Festival
La Cité Nantes Congress Centre
Time: Various
October 28, 2021
Lyon, France
Villa Gillet
In conversation with John Banville
Time: 730pm
October 26-27, 2021
New York, NY (virtual)
Literary Host Committee
Words Without Borders Gala
Time: 7pm
October 9, 2021
Chicago, IL
Novel Affair
Ragdale Foundation
Time: Cancelled as pandemic precaution
October 7, 2021
Brooklyn, NY
Rally Reading Series at Pete’s Candy Store
w/ Zaina Arafat, Phil Klay
Time: 7pm
March 23, 2021
BPL Presents – Climate Reads Series
w/ Brooklyn Public Library and Writers Rebel NYC
Time: 7pm
March 17, 2021
Virtual Author Series
w/ New York Public Library and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Time: 6pm
October 4, 2020
Brooklyn Book Festival
“Poetry of Fiction” w/ Carolyn Forche, Yusef Komunyakaa, Kate Zambreno
Time: 2pm
September 10, 2020
Visiting writer
Vermont College of Fine Arts
International MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation
August 24, 2020
Online seminar
Story Studio Chicago
Time: 7:00pm
July 31, 2020
Brooklyn, NY ; online event
826NYC
Time: 3:30pm
June 25, 2020
Online live event
The Alignist
w/ musician Kengchakaj and chef Kasem Saengsawang
Time: 730pm
May 28, 2020
Brooklyn, NY (Online)
Books Are Magic: Visibility & Kinship: An AAPI Heritage Month Panel
Time: 7pm
March 2-3, 2020
Adelaide, Australia
Adelaide Writers’ Week
Time: Various
February 22, 2020
Perth, Australia
Perth Festival
Time: Various
February 16, 2020
New York, NY
Sunday Salon
Time: 3:00pm
February 11, 2020
New York, NY
Earth Institute at Columbia University, Telling the Story of Climate Change
Time: 9am-4pm
February 9, 2020
Harlem, NY
First Person Plural Reading Series
Time: 6:00pm
December 9, 2019
Brooklyn, NY
Center for Fiction First Novel Fête
Time: 6:30pm
November 16-17, 2019
Bangkok, Thailand
Neilson Hays Bangkok Literary Festival
Time: Various
November 10, 2019
Bangkok, Thailand
Thammasat University, Literature Dept.
w/ Veeraporn Nitiprapha
Time: 10am
October 23-27, 2019
Bali, Indonesia
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival
Time: Various
October 17-20, 2019
Brattleboro, VT
Brattleboro Literary Festival
Time: Various
September 22, 2019
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Book Festival: Human Nature vs. Nature/The Climate Conflict
1pm
September 19, 2019
New York, NY
Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend: Guernica/NRDC’s “Now or Never: Storytellers Tackling Climate Change”
6pm
September 7, 2019
Brooklyn NY
Slice Literary Conference
4:30pm
July 15, 2019
Pittsburgh, PA
City of Asylum
w/ Ingrid Rojas Contreras
7pm
June 2, 2019
Bangkok, Thailand
Open House at Central Embassy
3pm
April 27, 2019
Little Rock, AR
Arkansas Literary Festival
w/ Chigozie Obioma, Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Ron Robinson Theater
4pm
April 22, 2019
New York, NY
Guernica Reading at NYU
w/ Helen Phillips, Nathan Kensinger, in discussion with Amy Brady, Ken Chen, Karen Holmberg, Eugenia Kisin, Jerome Whitington
7pm
April 13, 2019
New York, NY
Buffet
A private Harlem salon
7pm
March 21, 2019
Brooklyn, NY
Pete’s Reading Series
w/ Dani Shapiro, Dana Czapnik
7:30pm