Sick: A Memoir has been featured on The Today Show and in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Slate, Vogue, The Cut, HuffPost, The LA Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vice, Bitch Media, Women’s Review of Books, The Iowa Review, Guernica, Medium, Lenny Letter, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Paper Mag, AV Club, Girlboss.com, Johns Hopkins Magazine, Tin House, Pacific Standard, Brooklyn Digest, Brooklyn Fans, Berfrois, The Furious Gazelle, Longreads, Kirkus Reviews, and Punctuate, and has made Time’s Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far, Oprah.com’s Top Books of Summer, The Washington Post’s What Your Favorite Authors are Reading This Summer, The Boston Globe’s 23 of the Most Anticipated Book of 2018, Buzzfeed’s The 33 Most Exciting New Books of 2018, Bustle’s 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 and Best Nonfiction In June, Nylon’s 50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 and 46 Great Books to Read This Summer, Electric Literature’s46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018, HuffPost’s 60 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018, Bitch’s 30 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018, Refinery29’s Best New Books to Read This Month, AV Club’s 5 Books to Read This June, The Rumpus’sWhat to Read When 2018 is Just Around the Corner, Esquire.com’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 (So Far), Autostraddle’s 65 Feminist & Queer Books to Read in 2018, The Millions’ Most Anticipated: The Great 2018 Book Preview, Vol.1 Brooklyn’s 23 for 2018: A Literary Preview for the Year to Come, Book Riot’s June 2018 Roundup, Mind Body Green’s 5 Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down this June, Fast Company’s June Must-Reads, The Coil’s Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2016, Book Trib’s Most Anticipated List of 2018, Philadelphia Magazine’s Biz Leaders Most-Read Books of 2018, the Times Herald Record’s Summer Reading Roundup, Maine Public’s Summer Reads Roundup, Twin Cities Pioneer Press’ Summer Reads Roundup, Texas Book Festival’s Lit Director’s 2018 reads, Bestselling Books Today’s Roundup, Bookish’s Summer’s 2018 Must-Read Nonfiction, The Week’s Most Anticipated Books of 2018, Black Nerd Problems’ Most Anticipated Books of 2018, Poets and Writers’ New and Noteworthy Books, Library Journal’s Celebrity Book Club, WOCreads’ 10 WOC Reads in June 2018, and Lit Celebrasian’s June Books by Asian Authors.

Civitella Ranieri fellowship

Italy, 5/1-6/1

Visions and Fever Dreams: New Iranian Lit

Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 4/23, 7pm

with Shahriar Mandipour, Jasmin Darznik, & Sara Khalili

Pen America World Voices Festival: Take Back the Net: Fighting Online Hate

Rose Auditorium, Cooper Union, 4/21, 12pm

with Anita Sarkeesian, Yassmin Abdel-Magied & Katy Glenn Bass

https://worldvoices.pen.org/session/internet-hate/

A Reading and Conversation with Porochista Khakpour

Suny Purchase, 4/19, 4:30pm

https://www.purchase.edu/live/events/9009-a-reading-and-conversation-with-porochista

Lannan Symposium: We’re In This Thing Together, Keynote Conversation

Georgetown University, 4/10, 6:30pm

with Mariel Mendez & Jennifer Natalya Fink

https://lannan.georgetown.edu/2018-Lannan-Symposium

Book Launch: Gregory Pardlo presents Air Traffic

SISTERS Bklyn, 4/9, 7:30pm

http://newyork.carpediem.cd/events/6256735-book-launch-gregory-pardlo-presents-air-traffic-at-sisters-bk-at-sisters-bklyn/

Muse & the Marketplace Conference: Experimental Writing for Non-Experimental Writers

Boston, 4/7, 4:15pm

http://museandthemarketplace.com/muse-the-marketplace-2018-schedule/

Celebrating Clarice Lispector’s The Chandelier

Brooklyn Public Library Central Library, Dweck Center, 3/27, 9pm

with John Freeman & Idra Novey

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/celebrating-clarice-central-library-dweck-032718

All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World

Powerhouse @ The Archway, 3/15, 7pm

with Deborah Santana, Mercy Tullis-Bukhari, Menen Hailu, Mila Jam, Nuris Terrero, & Kirstin Leavy Miller

https://www.powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-all-the-women-in-my-family-sing-women-write-the-world-edited-by-deborah-santana/

AWP Conference, two panels

Tampa, FL, 3/7-3/10

The Body’s Story: On Writing Narratives of Illness

Room 5 & 6, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor, 3/8, 9am

with Sandra Beasley, Sonya Huber, Suleika Jaouad, & Esmé Weijun Wang

https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/12233

This is Scary and Here We Go: Fear in the Driver’s Seat

Room 5 & 6, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor, 3/10, 12pm

with Michele Filgate, Megan Stielstra, & Wendy C. Ortiz

https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/12725

Morgan Jerkins and Porochista Khakpour

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 2/27, 7pm

with Morgan Jerkins

https://www.housingworks.org/events/morgan-jerkins-porochista-khakpour

Our friends at Literary Hub helped us launch our book cover! Here is the story behind Sick’s cover: http://lithub.com/see-it-here-first-the-cover-for-porochista-khakpours-new-memoir-2/