3/25 7pm, McNallyJackson NYC Smith Henderson in conversation with Porochista Khakpour
4/4 TBA Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City
4/11 AWP Conference in Minneapolis (panel on memoir with Marie Mockett, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Porochista Khakpour, Ellis Avery, Alysia Abott)
4/18 Spring Writer’s Conference at the William Paterson University of New Jersey (keynote plus workshop)
4/19 Los Angeles Times Book Festival (panel)
4/29 7pm McNallyJackson NYC It’s The End of the World As We Know It: A Dystopian Fiction Panel (Porochista Khakpour, Emily St. John Mandel, Lincoln Michel, Shya Scanlon, Carola Dibbell–moderated by Jason Diamond and Rahawa Haile)
4/30, 6:30 Kingston, NY Word Cafe reading
5/5 NYC 2015 PEN Literary Gala
5/14 7pm NJ Montclair Art Museum “In the Wake of ‘Identity Politics'” panel held in conjunction with the exhibition Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s (Moderated by Huey Copeland, Associate Professor of the History of Art, Northwestern University; panelists include Rujeko Hockley, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum; Porochista Khakpour, writer; Simone Leigh, artist; and Soyoung Yoon, Assistant Professor of Art History and Program Director of Visual Studies, Department of the Arts, Eugene Lang College, The New School. )