Previous Appearances

Washington DC (Politics & Prose and The Modernist Society joint event, PEN/Faulkner Reading Series, AWP 2011); Baltimore (Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars); New York (National Arts Club, Barnes & Noble, KGB Reading Series, Happy Ending Reading Series, Enclave Reading Series, Half King Reading Series, Pacific Standard Reading Series, McNally Robinson Books, Pete’s Candy Store Reading Series, Sarah Lawrence College, Sarah Lawrence College Alumni Night at AWP 2008, The New School, Brooklyn Book Festival 2008, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 440 Gallery, Open Society Institute, International Center, Bronxville Library, Pageturner Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Cosmopolitan Club ); Los Angeles (Vroman’s Bookstore, Dutton’s Brentwood Books, UC Irvine Association of Iranian American Writers Conference, Vermin on the Mount Reading Series, UCLA); San Francisco (Black Oak Books, California Book Awards Ceremony 2008); Chicago (Bookslut Reading Series, Northwestern University); Cincinnati (keynote speaker at University of Cincinnati’s 2008 Ropes Lecture Series on “Violence and Literature: The Humanities in Post 9/11 America”); Sewanee, TN (Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellows Reading), Amherst, MA (Amherst College Reading Series); Metuchen, NJ (The Raconteur Books); Lewisburg, PA (Page after Page Bookshop, Bucknell University Stadler Center Reading Series); Cleveland (Imagination Conference); Virginia (VCCA, University of Virginia, Washington and Lee University, Old Dominion University Literary Festival); Santa Fe, NM (Santa Fe University of Art and Design, School for Advanced Research, Granta 116 at Collected Works); Vancouver (Simon Fraser University, West Vancouver Memorial Library); Germany (US Embassy Literature Series, Berlin; US Consulate Reading, Leipzig; Exberliner Series; Leipzig Book Fair)