Upcoming Events

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  • 7-9 Feb, 2024: AWP. Panels and readings: “Transfigured Flesh: Shapeshifting, Embodiment, and the Non-Human in Trans Narratives” with Rivers Solomon, Bishakh Som, and Andrea Lawlor; “Nonbinary & Trans Asians Writing in Rebellion” with Kirin Khan, River Dandelion, Ryka Aoki, and Kay Ulanday Barrett; We Call to the Eye and the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage launch reading with Persea Books; Writers for Palestine reading hosted by Mizna, RAWI, WAWOG, and al-Hadaf. Kansas City, Missouri.
  • 10-19 Feb: Tin House Winter Workshop, fiction faculty (virtual).
  • 18 Feb: Tin House faculty lecture, “The Quantum Mechanics of Tension.”
  • 13 Mar – 1 May, Advanced Novel Structure workshop faculty with Lighthouse (virtual).
  • 25-30 June: Kundiman retreat, fiction faculty (New York City).

Recent Events

  • 5 Nov: Teaching “Tension and stakes in fiction” intensive with the Hudson Valley Writers Center (virtual).
  • Oct-Nov: work featured in a hybrid visual-textual show “Vertigine” curated by Daniela Zangrando at Museo Burel (Belluno, Italy; ITA).
  • 24-26 Oct: Biannual Mizna+RAWIFest conference. Moderating panel “Trans Arab Methodologies and Aesthetics” with Trish Salah, Amir Rabiyah, Joe Kadi, and Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • 11 Oct: Conversation with translator Chiara Reali for the launch of the Italian translation of Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby, Club Recreativo Pignolo, Bergamo, Italy (italiano).
  • 8 Sep: Guided stargazing walk / immersive performance with visual artist Matteo Rubbi for Ocean Space/TBA21, “The Secret Sea / البحر السري” (Venice, Italy; bilingual event (ITA/ENG).
  • 18 July: Moderating a conversation with Jamila Ahmed on Every Rising Sun at the Center for Fiction, New York City.
  • July: Josef & Anni Albers Foundation Residency, Bethany, Connecticut.
  • 8 July: Moderating Periplus fellows reading at Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, New York.
  • 7 June: Panel conversation for Thus Waves Come in Pairs at Commerce Books, Milan, Italy (italiano).
  • 3 June: Conversation with Luna Chloe Novelli Noris (@tran.s.tories) for QueerFest, Pacì Paciana, Bergamo, Italy (italiano).
  • 11 May: Shelter Box book club Q&A (virtual).
  • 29 April: “Writing for Social Change” panel with Zakia Henderson-Brown and Taté Walker as part of the Changemaker Authors Conference (virtual).
  • 23 April: “Tension in Fiction” Tin House Spring Craft Intensive (virtual).
  • 10 Mar: AAWW offsite AWP event, “Hybrid Possibilities: Asian Queer Writers Across Genre” with Kay Ulanday Barrett, Angela Peñaredondo, Kirin Khan, and Lisa Factora-Borchers (virtual).
  • 9 Mar: AWP panel, “Filling in the Gaps: Folklore as an Antidote to Forgetting” with Temim Fruchter, Jami Nakamura Lin, Isabel Yap, and K-Ming Chang (virtual).
  • 2 Mar: Sitka resident talk (virtual).
  • Feb – April 2023: Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Residency, Otis, Oregon.