Events and Appearances
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
May 12, 2026
7 pm
Booksmith
1727 Haight Street
With Oscar Villalon
Reserve a seat/book here
ORINDA, CA
May 16, 2026
2 pm
Orinda Books
276 Village Square
Register here
NEW YORK, NY
May 18, 2026
Yu & Me Books
With Kirstin Chen
44 Mulberry Street
RSVP here
BALTIMORE
May 19, 2026
7 pm
Greedy Reads Remington
320 West 29th Street
With Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
Reserve here
BOSTON
May 20, 2026
7 pm
With Julie Carrick Dalton
SACRAMENTO, CA
May 22, 2026
6:30 PM
CLARA Auditorium
1425 24th Street
PASADENA, CA
May 28, 2026
3:20 pm
Hilton Pasadena
168 S. Los Robles Avenue
BERKELEY, CA
May 31, 2026
4 pm
Bay Area Book Festival
“Dream Can Be Deceiving: Asian American Identities”
With Elaine Hsieh Chou, Lisa Lee, and Kelly Yang, moderated by Dion Lim
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
1 pm
Words and Stories series
Salesforce Park
425 Mission Street
With the Writers Grotto
MORAGA, CA
June 8, 2026
7:30 PM
Faculty Reading
Storyboard Conference
Saint Mary’s College of California
1928 St. Mary’s Road
MORAGA, CA
June 13, 2026
3:30 PM
Craft Talk
Storyboard Conference
Saint Mary’s College of California
1928 St. Mary’s Road
STANFORD, CA
July 6-17, 2026
Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institute
Creative Writing, Morning Session
CORTE MADERA, CA
August 8, 2026
Time TBD
Travel Writers and Photographers Conference
Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista Blvd
MILL VALLEY, CA
September 9, 2026
6:30 pm
Mill Valley Library
375 Throckmorton Avenue
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
September 12, 2026
5:30 pm
Babylon Salon
2140 Mission Street
SAN CARLOS, CA
September 13, 2026
TBD
San Carlos LIbrary
610 Elm Street
PAST
SWANNANOA, NC
March 19, 2026
5:30 pm
Warren Wilson College
March 5, 2026
Institute for Independent Journalists
Freelance Journalism Conference
“Bringing Your Journalism Skills to Fiction”
4:15-5:30 pm ET
BERKELEY, CA
February 22, 2026
Berkeley Main Library
2090 Kittredge St
MENLO PARK, CA
January 29, 2026
Kepler’s
1010 El Camino Real
In conversation with Nina McConigley
BLACK MOUNTAIN, NC
January 3-13, 2026
Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers
Winter Residency
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
December 13, 2025
6:30 PM
Grotto Reading Series
Telegraph Hill Books
1501 Grant Avenue
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
November 21, 2025
7 pm
The Loft Mentor Series Reading
1011 Washington Ave S #200
ONLINE
November 3-7, 2025
Fine Arts Work Center
Online Fiction Workshop
Register here
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
October 21, 2025
7 pm
Books Inc Opera Plaza
601 Van Ness
In conversation with Susan Straight
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
September 23, 2025
7 pm
Booksmith
1727 Haight Street
With Peter Mountford and Jon Hickey
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
September 18, 2025
7 pm
Books Inc Marina
2251 Chestnut Street
In conversation with Yiming Ma
CHICAGO, IL
September 9, 2025
7-9 pm Central (5 pm-7 pm Pacific)
PJ Seminar, online
Register here
SEWANEE, TN
July 14-26, 2025
OLYMPIC VALLEY, CA
July 7-13, 2025
STANFORD, CA
June 16-27, 2025
Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institute
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
April 13, 2025
Historical Fiction Panel
297 Page Street
LOS ANGELES, CA
March 28, 2025
AWP
California Counternarratives, 10:35 am
Joyful Revision, 3:20 pm
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
March 3, 2025
1:30 pm
“Stories Are Hearbeats” Series
Ruth Asawa School for the Arts
555 Portola Drive
BERKELEY, CA
February 23, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
January 10, 2025
7 pm
Green Apple Books on the Park
In Conversation with Karissa Chen
EL CERRITO, CA
November 13, 2024
5:30-6:30 pm
Harding Auditorium
7230 Fairmount Avenue
With Tess Taylor and Shanthi Sekaran
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
November 12, 2024
7:30 pm
Make-out Room
3225 22nd Street
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
October 27, 2024-November 2, 2024
OAKLAND, CA
October 16, 2024
7 pm
Clio’s Bookstore
353 Grand Avenue
SWANNANOA, NC
Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers
Summer Residency
July 3-12
DENVER, CO
June 7-9, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Book Passage Ferry Building
May 9, 2024
5:30 PM
ORINDA, CA
April 27, 2024
Orinda Books
2 pm
In conversation with Bridget Quinn
BERKELY, CA
March 19, 2024
Pegasus Books
In conversation with Grace Loh Prasad
BERKELEY, CA
October 23, 2023
Mrs Dalloways
7 pm
2904 College Avenue
In conversation with Carol Roh Spaulding
OAKLAND
November 1, 2023
BART HQ
2150 Webster Street
12 noon
One Book One Bart with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
BERKELEY, CA
August 19, 2023
Berkley North Library
1170 The Alameda
4 pm
In conversation with Yael Goldstein Love
SAN JOSE, CA
September 7, 2023
Hammer Theater
SJSU
7 pm
In conversation with Hua Hsu
SWANNANOA, NC
Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers
Summer Residency
June 28-July 7
OLYMPIC VALLEY, CA
July 11, 2023 reading
SEWANEE, TN
July 19-30, 2023
BERKELEY, CA
August 19
In conversation with Yael Goldstein Love
North Branch
1170 The Alameda
4 pm
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
April 29, 2023
SFPL
ELK GROVE, CA
May 6, 2023
11 am
8230 Civic Center Drive
VIRTUAL
May 24, 2023
4 pm Pacific/7 pm Eastern
Alexandria Public Library
Register here
MENLO PARK, CA
LAFAYETTE, CA
April 27, 2023
7 pm
Lafayette Public Library
3491 Mt. Diablo Boulevard
Sweet Thursdays
April 23, 2023
10:30 am-2 pm
Author Salon
Peninsula Volunteers
Register Here
NEW YORK, NY
April 24, 2023
6:30 PM
Columbia University
420 Hamilton Hall
Diasporic Asian American Writers Series
ARLINGTON, VA
April 5, 2023
6:30 PM
1015 N. Quincy Street
PHILADELPHIA, PA
April 3, 2023
7:30 pm
1901 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA
MORAGA, CA
March 15, 2023
2:30 pm craft talk
7:30 pm reading
Visiting Writers Series
Galileo 201
Saint Mary’s College of California
1928 Saint Mary’s Road
BERKELEY, CA
March 3, 2023
Berkeley Public Library Foundation
VIRTUAL
LOS ALTOS, CA
March 7
SEATTLE, WA
AWP
March 9, 2023
1:45-3 pm
Containing Multitudes: Asian American Writers Not Writing about Race
SEATTLE, WA
AWP
March 10, 2023
12:10-1:25 pm
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
March 12, 2023
10 am-1 pm
The Secrets of Publishing
Writers Grotto
1663 Mission Street
Register here
ST. HELENA, CA
February 26, 2023
5 pm
Bookmark Napa Valley
Register here
VIRTUAL
February 13, 2023
1 pm
Writers Week
UC Riverside
Register here
NAPA, CA
February 4, 2023
Napa County AAUW Authors Forum
2 pm
Register here
January 26, 2023
Stanford Books on Review
10 am-12 pm
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January 26, 2023
Stanford Books on Review
10 am-12 pm
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Virtual
January 17, 2023
5 pm
Human Rights Watch Book Club
Register here