Speaking Events: Past and Future

MAY 23-26, 2025: Crested Butte Writing Festival, Crested Butte, CO

APRIL 16-18, 2025: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

APRIL 2-4, 2025: Webster University, Webster Groves, MO

MARCH 25-29, 2025: AWP in Los Angeles, CA

FEBRUARY TBD, 2025: University of California, Merced, CA

DECEMBER 3, 2024: Maryville University, St Louis, MO

NOVEMBER 22-24, 2024: National Book Award Celebration, Miami Book Fair, Miami Florida

NOVEMBER 19-20, 2024: National Book Award Foundation public reading of Whiskey Tender, NYU; National Book Award Celebration and Award Ceremony, Cipriani, Wall Street, NY, NY

NOVEMBER 16, 2024: Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX
Whiskey Tender reading and panel at TBD

NOVEMBER 12, 2024: Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Visiting writer reading event with Ciaran Berry

NOVEMBER 8, 2024: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Whiskey Tender reading and discussion with MFA students

NOVEMBER 2, 2024: San Pedro Public Library, Albuquerque, NM
Whiskey Tender Meet the Author Event from 3pm to 5pm

OCTOBER 24, 2024: Virtual Event with Sowell Family Collection in Literature
Whiskey Tender reading at 6pm MT

OCTOBER 14-16, 2024: Virginia Tech Visiting Performer, Blacksburg, VA
Monologue with Indigenous Performance Company

OCTOBER 12, 2024: Heartland Book Festival, Kansas City, KC
Keynote reading and talk with Tommy Orange

OCTOBER 10, 2024: Desert Nights, Rising Stars Conference, Phoenix, AZ

OCTOBER 1-3, 2024: Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024: Milwaukie Ledding Library in Milwaukie, Oregon

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024: Margins Conference, Denver, CO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024: Reading at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024: Lit Salon, Santa Fe Women’s Club, Santa Fe, NM

AUGUST 15, 2024: NDN Girls’ Book Club, Glenn Green Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

AUGUST 14, 2024: SWAIA SF Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM
A reading with authors from IAIA at MoCNA

AUGUST 7, 2024: Whiskey Tender reading, Wellfleet, MA
Wellfleet Public Library reading and Q & A at 7pm

AUGUST 5, 2024: Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Reading and craft talk at 6pm plus CNF workshop all week

JULY 31, 2024: Whiskey Tender reading, Denver, CO
Reading Den Series event at Fort Green Bar at 7pm

JULY 11, 2024: Whiskey Tender reading, IAIA CLE Commons at 6pm, Santa Fe, NM
IAIA Reading Series with Pam Houston and Michaela M.S. Red Cherries

JUNE 12, 2024: New Day Northwest Television Interview, Seattle, WA
Author Reflects on Native Identity

JUNE 12, 2024: Whiskey Tender reading, Seattle, WA
Elliott Bay Bookstore with Rena Priest

JUNE 10, 2024: Whiskey Tender reading, Missoula, MT
Fact or Fiction Bookstore with MO Poet Laureate, Chris LaTray

JUNE 1, 2024: Whiskey Tender reading, Santa Fe, NM
Unitarian Universalist congregation Q & A

APRIL 28, 2024: Rez Babes Book Club
Whiskey Tender conversation with Tohono Odham organizers

APRIL 26, 2024: Annapolis Book Festival, Annapolis, MD
Whiskey Tender reading and author discussion with Dr. Christy Stanlak
e

APRIL 25: Gathering of Nations Reading and Conversation, Albuquerque, NM
Native America Calling Podcast at Bookworks with Brandon Hobson and Ramona Emerson

APRIL 21: Los Angeles Times Book Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Author panel with Jade Chang, Annabelle Tometich, Liz Gutierrez, and Alejandra Campoverdi

APRIL 13: San Antonio Book Festival, San Antonio, TX
Whiskey Tender reading and conversation with Dr. Eric Castillo

APRIL 12: Northern Arizona Book Festival, Flagstaff, AZ
Keynote reading and panel with Natalie Diaz, Chelsea Hicks, and Stacie Denetsosie

APRIL 9, 2024: Whiskey Tender reading, San Francisco, CA
City Lights Bookstore with Dean Radar

APRIL 8, 2024: An Evening Reading with IAIA, San Francisco, CA
Green Apple Books with Ibe Liebenberg and Tracy Abeyta Virgil

APRIL 1, 2024: Whiskey Tender reading, St. Louis, MO
Left Bank Books in the Central West End with Jesse Kavadlo

MARCH 29, 2024: Whiskey Tender reading, Iowa City, IA
Prairie Lights Bookstore, downtown IC, with Melissa Febos

MARCH 28, 2024: Higher Education Channel TV, St. Louis, MO
Interview and conversation about the writing of Whiskey Tender

MARCH 23, 2024: Bishop’s Lodge, Santa Fe, NM
Whiskey Tender reading and conversation with Layli Long Soldie
r

MARCH 22, 2024: California Institute for the Arts, Santa Clarita, CA
Whiskey Tender reading and panel with Raquel Gutiérrez

MARCH 19, 2024: Whiskey Tender reading, Albuquerque, NM
On Native America Calling and at Bookworks with Jamie Figueroa

MARCH 15, 2024: Chaco Symphony Performance with R. Carlos Nakai
Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, Conducted by Gary Gackstatter

MARCH 14, 2024: Whiskey Tender reading, Farmington, NM
Farmington Public Library

MARCH 13, 2024: Whiskey Tender reading, Durango, Colorado
Maria’s Bookstore, historic downtown, at 6pm

MARCH 11, 2024: University of AZ Poetry Center, Tucson, AZ
Whiskey Tender reading plus Kwatsaan Sign Dedication

MARCH 9, 2024: Tucson Book Festival, Tucson, AZ
Whiskey Tender reading and Coming of Age Book Pane
l

MARCH 6, 2024: Whiskey Tender reading, Santa Fe, NM
Collected Works, downtown plaza, with Pam Houston

MARCH 4, 2024: Whiskey Tender reading, Brooklyn, NY
Books are Magic, Montague Street, with Honor Moore

FEBRUARY 29, 2024: Whiskey Tender reading, Washington, DC
Politics and Prose, Union Market, with Lenika Cruz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024: Whiskey Tender book launch event, Honolulu, HI
Da Shop Bookstore with Kristiana Kahakauwila

FEBRUARY 20-23, 2024: Indigenous Visionaries Conference, Denver, CO
American Indian College Fund Fellow, Tribal College Women Leaders

FEBRUARY 8, 2024: AWP in Kansas City, KS
Rebel Voices Only Panel with Rena Priest, Lamya H, and G’Ra Asim

FEBRUARY 4, 2024: Fort Collins Book Festival, Fort Collins, CO
Conference Fellow: Reading and Workshop

JANUARY 24, 2024: The Lensic Theater, Santa Fe, NM
The Aunties Monologue with Nora Naranjo, Laura Tohe, and Indigenous Performance

NOVEMBER 10, 2023: An Evening Reading with IAIA, Portland, OR
Bishop and Wilde bookstore with Stacie S. Denetsosie and Carla Crujido

OCTOBER 23-30, 2023: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Visiting Writer: Reading and Craft Talk in the Barn

OCTOBER 12, 2023: Desert Nights, Rising Stars Conference, Phoenix, AZ
Conference Fellow: Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Arizona State University