READINGS/EVENTS

2023

  • Tuesday, 8/15 – 6 pm: Next Chapter Books, Saint Paul
  • Wednesday, 8/23 – BOND Book and Author event, Hopkins MN
  • Friday, 8/25 – 7:00pm: Pillsbury Hall Theater, University of Minnesota with Antonia Angress, Matt Burgess, and Sally Franson. Reception follows – Magers & Quinn Booksellers
  • Tuesday, 8/29 – 7:00pm : Arcadia Books, Spring Green, WI
  • Wednesday, 8/30 – 6:30pm: Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee, WI
  • Saturday, 9/9: Printers Row Lit Fest, Chicago
  • Wednesday, 9/13 – 7:00pm : Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
  • Thursday, 9/21 – 7:00pm: Content Books, Northfield, MN
  • Thursday, 9/28 – 6:00pm: Columbus Museum of Art/Thurber House, Columbus, OH
  • Thursday, 10/19 – Trinity College, Hartford, CT
  • Friday, 11/3 – 7:00pm: Literature Lovers’ Night Out, Hopkins, MN
  • Saturday, 11/4 – noon: Literature Lovers’ Night Out, Stillwater, MN
  • Thursday, 11/9 – 7:00pm: Book Culture, West 112th Street, New York, NY with Isaac Butler

2019

  • April 8: University of Wisconsin, River Falls
  • April 19: United States Airforce Academy, Colorado Springs
  • April 30: Carnegie Library, Little Falls MN
  • May 11: WordPlay Literary Festival Dialogue with Dave Barry, Minneapolis
  • May 19: University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Commencement Address
  • August 6: Barnes & Noble, Woodbury MN, 7 pm
  • August 21: BOND Book and Author luncheon, Minneapolis
  • September 26-27: Harbor Springs Literary Festival, Michigan
  • October 18: National Association of Schools of Art & Design, Pittsburgh
  • October 21: Wake Forest, Dean Family Speaker Series, NC
  • October 29: Sioux Falls/Augustana University, SD
  • November 8: Grand Marais writers festival, MN

2018

  • March 8, 1:30 – 2:45: “Broad Humor, FunnyGrrls, Excellent Women: Fiction Writers on Gender and Comedy,” AWP Conference, Tampa FL
  • March 15, 4:30: Reading, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
  • April 4, 7 pm: Moderator, Freier Lecture on Writing for Young Adults — Kate DiCamillo, M.T. Anderson, Nicola Yoon, David Barclay Moore — University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
  • April 5: Reading, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Omaha NE
  • May 12, 11 am: “Book Ends: Meet the Author,” Wadena MN
  • August 2 : Keynote Speaker, Phi Kappa Phi biennial convention, Minneapolis MN
  • August 14, 7 pm: Harvard Book Store, Boston MA
  • August 16, 7 pm: McNally Jackson Booksellers, Manhattan NY
  • August 17, 7 pm: Politics & Prose, Washington, DC
  • August 20, 7 pm: Arcadia Books, Spring Green WI
  • August 21, 7 pm: Prairie Lights, Iowa City IA
  • August 22, 7:30 pm: Women and Children First, Chicago IL
  • August 23, 7 pm: Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor MI
  • September 13, 7 pm: University of Minnesota, Andersen Library, Minneapolis MN
  • September 20, 7 pm: Content Bookstore, Northfield MN
  • September 27, 7 pm: Magers and Quinn Bookstore, Minneapolis MN
  • September 28, 4 pm: Luther College Writers Festival, Decorah IA
  • October 1, 5:30 pm: The Bookstore at Fitger’s, Duluth MN
  • October 8, 7 pm: Common Good Books, Saint Paul MN
  • October 16, 7 pm: Literature Lovers’ Night Out, Stillwater MN
  • October 17, 7 pm: Literature Lovers’ Night Out, Excelsior MN

2017

  • February 15, 4:30 – 6pm: The Valley Bookseller “Writers on Writing,” The Dock Café, Stillwater MN
  • March 30, 4 pm: The  College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University
  • April 10:  Doodling for Academics pub date
  • April 14, 7:30 pm:   Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts
  • July 30, 5:00 pm: Common Good Books, St. Paul — book discussion
  • September 21: Reading and discussion with Lorna Landvik, Rochester MN
  • October 6, 6:30pm:  Keynote speaker, TYCA Midwest, St. Paul MN
  • October 26: LaSierra University, California
  • October 31, 10:00 – 11:30: “Tuesday with a Scholar,” Southdale Library, Edina MN

2016

  • Minnesota Academy of Ophthalmology, Saint Paul, January 8
  • Readers Theatre Repertory Stage Adaptation of Dear Committee Members, Portland, Oregon, January 22, 23, 24
  • Excelsior Bay Books, Excelsior, Minnesota January 27
  • Carleton College, February 3
  • “Headliners,” University of Minnesota St. Paul Campus, February 4
  • Augsburg College residency, February 8-11
  • University of Wisconsin/Stout, March 1, 2016
  • AAUW Minneapolis, April 12
  • Oberlin College, April 13, 2016
  • Mercyhurst Literary Festival, April 14, 2016
  • Twin Cities Teen Lit Con, May 7
  • University of Minnesota Libraries conference, May 17
  • Thurber House, Columbus Ohio, December 7