A Sample of Past Events

Pen World Voices Festival, NYC, May 15, 2022

2022 PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL BRINGS INTERNATIONAL WRITERS AND THINKERS TO NYC MAY 11-14 FOR A UNIQUE INTELLECTUAL ASSEMBLAGE AMID CONFLICT. My panel: Nation to Nation: Indigenous Voices on Reckoning and Reconciliation


[margins.] conference + festival | @wordsarediversity DENVER, July 7, 2022

PANEL: INDIGENOUS WRITERS & REPRESENTATION IN LITERATURE


Literary Death Match, St Louis, MO November 10, 2022

Featured Author Competition: The rock ’em sock ’em knock down drag out fight with two other authors at the Kranzberg Arts Center.


United Nations Delegate Trip, NYC, March 6, 2023

Presentation at the UN about educating rural Indigenous creatives online during and after the pandemic via my job as Director of the MFA CW program at the Institute of American Indian Arts/


Author’s Guild Online Panel, March 28, 2023

Panel: Residencies and Retreats, Getting the Most Out of Your Experience


Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, July 4-9, 2023

Reading with WILDER WORDS authors following by a week long writing workshop at the Fine Arts Work Center


Native Lit Fest with the STL Art Museum, St Louis, MO, July 26, 2023

Featured Author Reading plus community workshop at the St Louis Public Library



AWP, Seattle Convention Center, March 10, 2023

Panel: Playing the Long Game + A Reading with IAIA


Arizona State University, Desert Nights, Rising Stars, October 13-14, 2024

Teaching Fellow at the conference, workshop offered to attendees + a Fellow reading with other authors


Vermont Studio Center, October 23-30, 2024

VSC Visiting Writer: Critiqued manuscripts, gave a reading, provided a craft talk to authors in residency


Tin House/Bishop and Wilde, Portland, OR, November 10, 2024

Held an Evening with IAIA in Portland, Oregon, with three other IAIA authors. Taught a workshop to local community members.