January 29-30, 2025. Chestertown, MD. Washington College

February 13, 2025. San Francisco, CA. Mechanics’ Institute

February 23, 2025. Berkeley, CA. Berkeley Public Library Foundation

March 15-16, 2025. Tucson, AZ. Tucson Festival of Books

March 25, 2025. Poets & Writers

March 27-30, 2025. Los Angeles, CA. Association of Writers & Writing Programs

April 23, 2025. Moraga, CA. St. Mary’s

April 26-27, 2025. Los Angeles, CA. Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

July 14-27, 2025. Sewanee, TN. Sewanee Writers’ Conference

PAST EVENTS

November 23-24, 2024. Miami, FL. Miami Book Festival

November 18, 2024. Austin, TX. Michener Center for Writers, UT Austin

November 16-17, 2024. Austin, TX. Texas Book Festival

November 2, 2024. Portland, OR. Portland Book Festival

October 31-November 4, 2024. Portland, OR. Tin House Autumn Workshop

October 30, 2024. McMinnville, OR. Linfield University

October 23, 2024. Berkeley, CA. Litquake

September 28-29, 2024. Brooklyn, NY. Brooklyn Book Festival

September 21-22, 2024. Denver, CO. The Word’s Margins Literary Conference

September 17, 2024. San Francisco, CA. Booksmith (with Regina Porter, to discuss The Rich People Have Gone Away)

August 29, 2024. Berkeley, CA. Gilman Brewing Company (with Sam Sax, to discuss Yr Dead)

August 19, 2024. San Francisco, CA. City Lights (with Stacey D’Erasmo, to discuss The Long Run)

July 30, 2024. San Francisco, CA, with Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Oscar Villalon. Zyzzyva Movie Night, featuring Secretary. Roxie Theatre

July 16-28, 2024. Sewanee, TN. Sewanee Writers’ Conference

July 7-10, 2024. Santa Fe, NM. Institute of American Indian Arts

June 26, 2024. 7:00. San Francisco, CA. Green Apple Books on the Park (with Carvell Wallace, to discuss Another Word for Love)

June 25, 2024. 4:00. Burlington, MA. Burlington Public Library

June 7, 2024, 6:30. Milwaukee, WI, with Chris Lee. Boswell Book Company

June 6, 2024, 6:00. Madison, WI, with Chloe Benjamin. A Room of One’s Own

June 5, 2024, 6:00. Chicago, Il, with Nami Mun. American Writers Museum

June 4, 2024, 7:00. Chicago, Il. StoryStudio

June 2, 2024, 1:45. Berkeley, CA, with Brontez Purnell, Sam Sax, and Lucy Jane Bledsoe. Bay Area Book Festival

May 30, 2024, 7:00. Harrisburg, PA, with Sheela Jane Menon. Midtown Scholar Bookstore

May 29, 2024, 7:00. New York, NY, with Mary H.K. Choi. Yu & Me Books and Kundiman, off-site on the New Design High School rooftop

May 28, 2024, 7:00. Washington, DC, with Lupita Aquino. Loyalty Bookstore and The Writer’s Center, off-site at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

May 23, 2024, 7:00. Berkeley, CA, with Cathy Park Hong. East Bay Booksellers, off-site at Gilman Brewing Company

May 22, 2024, 7:00. Los Angeles, CA, with Margaret Cho. Skylight Books

May 21, 2024, 7:00. Santa Cruz, CA, with Angie Sijun Lou. Bookshop Santa Cruz

May 20, 2024, 7:00. San Francisco, CA. pre-publication launch party, with Ingrid Rojas Contreras. Green Apple Books and Litquake, off-site at Verdi Club

March 27, 2024, 7:00. San Francisco, CA. Booksmith (with Téa Obreht, to discuss The Morningside)

March 19, 2024, 7:00. San Francisco, CA. Green Apple Books on the Park (with Lisa Ko, to discuss Memory Piece)

March 6, 2024, 7:30. San Francisco, CA. Books Inc. Opera Plaza (with Leslie Jamison, to discuss Splinters)

January 24, 2024, 8:00. Palo Alto, CA. Stanford University

December 6, 2023, 4:30. New York, NY. Columbia University

October 23, 2023, 5:30. San Francisco, CA. Book Passage (with Vauhini Vara, to discuss This is Salvaged)

September 29, 2023, 7:00. San Francisco, CA. Green Apple Books on the Park (with C Pam Zhang, to discuss Land of Milk and Honey)

July 26, 2023, 7:00. San Francisco, CA. Booksmith (with Beth Nguyen, to discuss Owner of a Lonely Heart)

October 19, 2022, 7:00. Berkeley, CA. Booksmith (with Celeste Ng, to discuss Our Missing Hearts)

September 18, 2022, 4:00. Corte Madera, CA. Book Passage (with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, to discuss On the Rooftop)

September 14, 2022, 7:00. PEN/Faulkner (online, with Joanne Ramos, Leni Zumas, and Elisa Albert, to discuss abortion rights and reproductive justice)

August 4, 2022, 7:00. San Francisco, CA. Green Apple Books on the Park (with Elaine Castillo, to discuss How to Read Now)

July 12, 2022, 7:30. Reed, OR. Tin House Summer Workshop (with Ingrid Rojas Contreras, to discuss The Man Who Could Move Clouds)

July 9-17, 2022. Reed, OR. Tin House Summer Workshop

July 6, 2022. San Francisco, CA, 7:00. Booksmith (with Lydia Conklin, to discuss Rainbow Rainbow)

June 10, 2022, 7:00. San Francisco, CA. Green Apple Books on the Park (with Shelly Oria, Caitlin Donohue, Anisse Gross, Caille Millner, and Alia Volz, to discuss I Know What’s Best For You)

May 25, 2022, 6:00. San Francisco, CA. Italian Cultural Institute (with Elaine Castillo and Enrico Rotelli, to discuss L’America è un esperimento)

March 3, 2022, 7:00. Local Libraries Lit, Iowa (online)

February 15, 2022, 7:00. Flyleaf Books (online, with Robert Jones, Jr., to discuss The Prophets)

August 30, 2021. Bookshop Santa Cruz (online, with Kat Chow, to discuss Seeing Ghosts)

July 22, 2021, 6:00. Green Apple Books on the Park (online, with Kristen Radtke, to discuss Seek You)

May 12, 2021, 7:00. Asian American Writers Workshop (online, with Larissa Pham, to discuss Pop Song)

April 21, 2021, 7:00. Pilsen Community Books (online, with Anjali Enjeti & Suchitra Vijayan)

April 14, 2021, 7:00. Get Lit (online, with Callum Angus, Vanessa Clark, & Larissa Pham)

April 14, 2021, 7:00. Green Apple Books on the Park (online, with Melissa Febos, to discuss Girlhood)

April 8, 2021. Barnes & Noble (online, with Mary H.K. Choi, to discuss Yolk)

March 4, 2021, 7:00. 92Y (online, with Viet Thanh Nguyen, to discuss The Committed)

February 23, 2021, 7:00. Powell’s (online, with Kim Fu, Roxane Gay, Larissa Pham, & Lidia Yuknavitch)

February 17, 2021, 7:00. Green Apple Books on the Park + kink.com (online, with Vanessa Clark & Garth Greenwell)

February 12, 2021, 6:00. Politics & Prose + Books & Books (online, with Alexander Chee, Garth Greenwell, & Carmen Maria Machado)

February 9, 2021. 7:00. The Strand + PEN America (online, with Melissa Febos, Garth Greenwell, & Brandon Taylor)

February 6, 2021, 4:00. Book Passage (online, with Chang-rae Lee, to discuss My Year Abroad)

February 3, 2021, 8:00. Loyalty Books (online, with Jenny Offill, to discuss Weather)

February 2, 2021. Black Mountain Institute (online)

January 19, 2021. Debutiful (online, with Karan Mahajan & Esmé Weijun Wang)

January 15, 2021, 7:00. Books Are Magic (online, with Anna North, to discuss Outlawed)

January 8, 2021, 6:00. Lighthouse Writers Workshop (online, keynote)

January 6, 2021. Housatonic Book Award (online)

November 15, 2020. Kundiman (online)

September 30, 2020. 6:00. Politics & Prose (online, with Marilynne Robinson, to discuss Jack)

September 22, 2020. 7:30. Town Hall Seattle (online, with Mychal Denzel Smith, to discuss Stakes is High)

September 16, 2020. 6:30. Holy Family University (online)

July 28, 2020. 6:30. Bomb Magazine (online, with Laura van den Berg & Karolina Waclawiak, to discuss I Hold a Wolf by the Ears & Life Events)

July 27-31, 2020. Miami Writers Institute (online)

July 22, 2020. 2:00. Tin House Summer Workshop (online, with Ismail Muhammad & Jenn Shapland)

July 15, 2020. 12:00. Point Reyes Books (online, fundraiser, with Cathy Park Hong & Rachel Khong)

June 20, 2020. 2:00. Paths Through Publishing (online, fundraiser, with T Kira Madden, Tejal Rao, & Esmé Weijun Wang)

May 30, 2020. 4:00. Book Passage (online, with Téa Obreht, to discuss Inland)

May 2, 2020. 7:00. Bay Area Book Festival (online, fundraiser, with Anthony Doerr, Danielle Evans, & Viet Thanh Nguyen)

April 23, 2020. 6:00. Green Apple Books on the Park (online, with C Pam Zhang, to discuss How Much of These Hills is Gold)

April 1, 2020. 7:00. Litquake (online, with Lauren Markham, Nayomi Munaweera, & Ingrid Rojas Contreras)

February 28, 2020. Manhattan, KS. Kansas State University

February 24, 2020. 7:00. Claremont, CA. Scripps College (with Jia Tolentino, to discuss Trick Mirror)

February 15, 2020. 3:30. Claremont, CA. Scripps College (with Maureen Corrigan)

February 6, 2020. 7:30. San Francisco, CA. Green Apple Books on the Park (with Garth Greenwell, to discuss Cleanness)

January 31, 2020. Fresno, CA. California State University, Fresno (with Joseph Cassara)

November 19, 2019. 7:30. Oakland, CA. A Great Good Place For Books (with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, to discuss The Revisioners)

November 14, 2019, 6:00-8:00. Sacramento, CA. Capital Radio Reads

November 13, 2019. Marin, CA. Marin Country Day School (keynote)

November 6-8, 2019. Bloomington, IN. Indiana University Bloomington

October 11-12, 2019. Fairfax, VA. Fall for the Book Festival

October 11, 2019, 5:30. Fairfax, VA. George Mason University

October 7, 2019, 6:00. Harrisburg, PA. Pennsylvania State Harrisburg

October 5, 2019, 4:30. Harrisburg, PA. Harrisburg Book Festival

September 18, 2019, 7:30. Zurich, Switzerland. House of Literature

September 17, 2019, 8:00. Munich, Germany. Lehmkuhl

September 16, 2019, 7:30. Cologne, Germany. House of Literature

September 15, 2019, 8:00. Hamburg, Germany. Harbour Front Festival of Literature

September 14, 2019, 9:00. Berlin, Germany. Berlin International Festival of Literature

September 4, 2019, 7:30. San Francisco, CA. The Bindery (with Carolina de Robertis, to discuss Cantoras)

August 31, 2019. Washington, DC. National Book Festival (with Valeria Luiselli, moderated by Aminatta Forna)

August 30, 2019. Washington, DC. National Book Festival Gala (speech)

August 25, 2019. New Bedford, MA. Hollihock Writers Conference (keynote)

August 13-24, 2019. Ripton, VT. Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

August 11, 2019, 3:00 PM. Los Angeles, CA. Smart Summer Reads

August 8, 2019, 7:00 PM. San Francisco, CA. Books Inc., Opera Plaza (with Rachel Khong)

August 4, 2019, 6:00 PM. Pittsburgh, PA. City of Asylum (with Anjali Sachdeva)

August 3, 2019, 6:00 PM. Harrisburg, PA. Midtown Scholar Bookstore (with Jessamine Chan)

August 2, 2019, 12:30 PM. New York, NY. New York Times, “Times Reads”

August 1, 2019, 7:00 PM. New York, NY. Book Culture, Columbus (with Mira Jacob)

July 31, 2019, 6:30 PM. Chicago, IL. American Writers Museum (with Nami Mun)

July 30, 2019, 7:00 PM. Corte Madera, CA. Book Passage (with C Pam Zhang)

July 6-14, 2019. Reed, OR. Tin House Summer Workshop

June 17, 2019. Los Angeles, CA. Antioch University

May 12-17, 2019. Big Sur, CA. Lit Camp

May 4, 2019. Berkeley, CA. Bay Area Book Festival, “Critic’s Choice: Three Young 21st Century Writers Rocking the Literary World” (with Jamel Brinkley & Namwali Serpell, moderated by Jane Ciabattari)

May 4, 2019. Berkeley, CA. Bay Area Book Festival, “A Celebration of the Paris Review” (with Franny Choi, Kiese Laymon, & Emily Nemens, moderated by Christian Kiefer)

May 1, 2019, 7:00 PM. Corte Madera, CA. Book Passage (with Miriam Toews, to discuss Women Talking)

April 27, 2019, 6:00 PM. Walnut Creek, CA. Walnut Creek Authors Gala

April 2, 2019, 6:00 PM. Iowa City, IA. Mission Creek Festival, Prairie Lights Bookstore

March 29, 2019, 7:00 PM. Portland, OR. Celebrating 10 years of Electric Literature and The Rumpus (with Kaveh Akbar, Marie-Helene Bertino, Ryan Chapman, Bonnie Chau, & Talin Tahajian)

March 28, 2019, 3:00 PM. Portland, OR. Association of Writers & Writing Programs (with Mark Neely, Bich Minh Nguyen, Nick White, & Marcus Wicker)

March 22, 2019, 7:00 PM. San Francisco, CA. Kearny Street Workshop (with Lee Herrick)

March 20, 2019, 7:00 PM. San Francisco, CA. The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University (with Nona Caspers & Carolina de Robertis)

March 8, 2019, 6:00 PM. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco Library Laureates Gala

March 7, 2019, 7:00 PM. San Jose, CA. Center for Literary Arts, San Jose State University (with Kirstin Chen & Vanessa Hua)

March 1-3, 2019. Tucson, AZ. Tucson Festival of Books

February 15-17, 2019. Savannah, GA. Savannah Book Festival

February 13, 2019, 6:00-9:00 PM. San Francisco, CA. 826 Valencia (with Dave Eggers, Andrew Sean Greer, Juliana Delgado Lepora, & Dashka Slater)

February 10, 2019, 6:00 PM. Corte Madera, CA. Book Passage (with Brian Copeland, Julie Lythcott-Haims, & Ingrid Rojas Contreras)

February 6, 2019, 7:30 PM. San Francisco, CA. Green Apple Books on the Park (with Esmé Weijun Wang, to discuss The Collected Schizophrenias)

February 5, 2019. Indianapolis, IN. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (with Laura van den Berg)

February 4, 2019, 6:00 PM. Chicago, IL. University of Chicago

February 1, 2019. Denver, CO. Denver Eclectics

January 25, 2019, 7:00 PM. Oakland, CA. Cafe Society (with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton)

January 17, 2019. Seaside, OR. Pacific University

December 14, 2018, 7:00 PM. Oakland, CA. The Eastbay Reading Extravaganza, Octopus Literary Salon (with Natalie Baszile & Vanessa Hua)

December 8, 2018, 7:30 PM. Davis, CA. Stories on Stage (with Colin Winnette)

December 7, 2018, 7:00 PM. San Francisco, CA. The Ruby Book-Release Party

December 5, 2018, 7:30 PM. San Francisco, CA. Green Apple Books on the Park (with Joshua Rivkin, to discuss Chalk)

November 26, 2018. Orlando, FL. University of Central Florida

November 20, 2018. Tempe, AZ. Arizona State University

November 19, 2018, 6:00 PM. Phoenix, AZ. Changing Hands Bookstore

November 19, 2018. Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix City College

November 16-18, 2018. Miami, FL. Miami Book Fair, “New Fiction” (with Jamie Quatro)

November 14, 2018, 4:30 PM. Gambier, OH. Kenyon College

November 13, 2018, 7:00 PM. Cleveland, OH. Brews & Prose (with Huda Al-Marashi)

November 10, 2018, 6:00 PM. Seattle, WA. Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park (with Danya Kukafka)

November 9, 2018, 7:30 PM. Seattle, WA. Hugo House Literary Series (with Shelby Earl, Kim Fu, & Lauren Groff)

November 8, 2018, 7:00 PM. Sausalito, CA. Why There Are Words

November 5, 2018, 4:00 PM. Clinton, NY. Hamilton College

October 30, 2018. New York, NY. Words Without Borders Gala, Globe Trot

October 28, 2018, 2:30 PM. Austin, TX. Texas Book Festival, “Believe Me” (with Sofia Sokolove & John Wray)

October 27, 2018, 10:30 AM. Austin, TX. Texas Book Festival, “Meet the Indie Next Authors” (with Nicole Chung, Hannah Oliver Depp, & Tommy Orange)

October 23, 2018, 6:00 PM. San Francisco, CA. The Ruby Book Club

October 20, 2018, 8:00 PM. San Francisco, CA. Lit Crawl (with The Rumpus)

October 17, 2018, 7:30 PM. Portland, OR. Powell's City of Books (with Elena Passarello)

October 16, 2018, 5:00 PM. McMinnville, OR. Linfield College

October 10, 2018, 6:30 PM. New York, NY. The New School (with Luis Jaramillo)

October 8, 2018, 8:00 PM. Brooklyn, NY. Franklin Park Reading Series (with Samantha Hunt, Ben Marcus, Bram Presser, Dan Sheehan, & Amanda Stern)

September 26, 2018. 8:00 PM. Oakland, CA. Mills College

September 25, 2018, 4:00 PM. San Francisco, CA. California College of the Arts

September 25, 2018, 11:30 AM. Orinda, CA. Orinda Books

September 20, 2018, 7:30 PM. San Francisco, CA. Booksmith, The Bindery (with Anisse Gross, Rachel Khong, Lydia Kiesling, Caille Millner, & Colin Winnette)

September 17, 2018, 7:00 PM. Las Vegas, NV. Writer's Block, The Believer & Black Mountain Institute (with Derek Palacio)

September 16, 2018, 5:00 PM. Brooklyn, NY. Brooklyn Book Festival, “Constructing the Self” (with Hermione Hoby, Tim Manley, & Rahna Reiko Rizzuto)

September 16, 2018, 11:00 AM. Brooklyn, NY. Brooklyn Book Festival, “The Feminist Future of Fiction, Presented by Books Are Magic” (with Alexia Arthurs, Lydia Kiesling, & Emma Straub)

September 14, 2018, 7:00 PM. Washington, DC. Politics and Prose, Union Market (with Nicole Chung)

September 13, 2018, 6:00 PM. Washington, DC. Library of Congress, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Kundiman (with Hieu Minh Nguyen & Gowri Koneswaran)

September 11, 2018, 7:00 PM. San Francisco, CA. City Lights (with Oscar Villalon)

September 8, 2018, 7:30 PM. San Francisco, CA. Writers With Drinks (with Courtenay Harmeister, Maria Dahvana Headley, Barbara Jane Reyes, & Jane Smiley)

September 5, 2018, 7:00 PM. Chicago, IL. Women & Children First (with Rebecca Makkai)

September 4, 2018, 6:30 PM. Chicago, IL. StoryStudio

August 30, 2018, 6:30 PM. San Francisco, CA. The Ruby (roundtable discussion with Vanessa Hua, Lydia Kiesling, Crystal Hana Kim, Lillian Li, & Ingrid Rojas Contreras)

August 29, 2018, 6:00 PM. San Francisco, CA. Book Passage (with Vanessa Hua, Crystal Hana Kim, Lillian Li, & Ingrid Rojas Contreras)

August 28, 2018, 7:00 PM. Burlingame, CA. Books Inc. (Short Fiction Book Club)

August 13, 2018, 7:00 PM. Oakland, CA. East Bay Booksellers (with Nayomi Munaweera)

August 11, 2018, 2:00 PM. Denver, CO. Tattered Cover Book Store, Historic LoDo (with Vauhini Vara)

August 9, 2018, 7:00 PM. Cambridge, MA. Porter Square Books (with Garnette Cadogan)

August 8, 2018, 7:00 PM. New York, NY. Asian American Writers’ Workshop (with Alexander Chee)

August 7, 2018, 7:30 PM. Brooklyn, NY. Books Are Magic (with Alice Sola Kim)

August 3, 2018, 7:30 PM. La Jolla, CA. Warwick’s (with Lizz Huerta)

August 2, 2018, 7:30 PM. Los Angeles, CA. Skylight Books (with Jade Chang)

July 31, 2018, 7:30 PM. San Francisco, CA. Green Apple Books on the Park (with Esmé Weijun Wang)