Appearances

2021

April: New Orleans Poetry Festival, Virtual Reading

January: Women’s National Book Association Virtual Reading

2020

November: UNO Goldroom, Virtual Reading

October: Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach (nonfiction, playwriting, poetry)

September: Women’s National Book Association Virtual Reading

July: ONline INsideOUT, Atlantic Center for the Arts

June: Poetry Buffet, Virtual Open Mic

May: Lit Balm Open Mic (poetry) 

April: Celebrate National Poetry Month with WNBA Poets (roundtable)

April: Poetry Friends first Virtual Open Mic 

April: Unolit-20: A Virtual Literary Reading (poetry)  

2019

August: Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown (songwriting)

April: New Orleans Poetry Festival, Healing Center

That Various Field” (workshop)

Poetry reading

2018

August: Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown (poetry)

April: New Orleans Poetry Festival, “That Various Field” (workshop)

March: Deep South in the Global South Conference, Lafayette, Louisiana

“Negotiating Southern Womanhood” scholarship reading and Q&A (“Naturalism and the Florida Setting in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston”)

“Southern Figures: Creative Reading” and Q&A (“Weird… Joe Pesci”)

“Writing in the South Round Table” panel discussion

January: Words & Society: Women Poets Resist” (reader/panelist), Mid-City Library, New Orleans

2017

December: Southern Rep Theatre, New Orleans; pre-show discussion for Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, “Sequels and Why we Love Them: A Panel Discussion” (panelist)

October: 2017 Louisiana Book Festival, State Library, Baton Rouge (poetry)

September: Blood Jet Poetry Series, BJ’s Lounge, New Orleans

August: Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown (poetry)

AugustPoetry Buffet, Milton H. Latter Library, New Orleans

April: Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents: “Just Listen to Yourself”, State Library, Baton Rouge 

March: Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference, Coastal Alabama Community College, Fairhope

“Writing Contemporary Nonfiction from Personal and Familial Artifacts” (panelist)

That Various Field” (workshop)

Poetry reading

January: Pitzer College, Claremont, California (poetry)

2016

December: Garden District Book Shop, New Orleans (poetry)

DecemberRosa F. Keller Library, New Orleans (poetry)

November: Words & Music Writers Alliance, New Orleans (poetry)

NovemberLadyfest New Orleans, Magazine Street home (poetry)

August: Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown (poetry)

June: Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach (poetry)

MayBlood Jet Poetry Series, BJ’s Lounge, New Orleans

April: Inaugural New Orleans Poetry Festival, Arts Estuary

March: GCACWT Conference, Faulkner State Community College, Fairhope (poetry)

January: Miami Beach Women’s Club, South Beach (poetry)

2015

November: Other Words Literary Conference, Flagler College, St. Augustine; “It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: How Five Writers Became Cartoonists” (panelist)  

November: Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach (poetry)

May: MFA Graduate Thesis Readings, UNO (nonfiction)

JanuaryAtlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach (poetry)

2014

November: University of New Orleans, presentation of “Unlock Memories through Graphic Memoir”

April: UNO Goldroom, Handsome Willy’s, New Orleans (nonfiction)

March: GCACWT Conference, Faulkner State Community College, Fairhope (nonfiction)

March: AIZEN/UNO International Conference, presentation of “Naturalism and the Florida Setting in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston”

January: Hemmerling Gallery on 733 Royal Street, New Orleans (poetry)

JanuaryAtlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach (nonfiction)

2013

August: Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs (poetry)

2012

December: Maple Leaf, New Orleans (poetry)

October: UNO Goldroom, Handsome Willy’s, New Orleans (nonfiction)