EVENTS

UPCOMING

• April 19, 2026, 2-4 p.m.: Co-hosting The Mid-Atlantic Review’s community reading and fundraiser with featured readers Regie Cabico, Kimberly A. Collins, Teri Cross Davis, Susan Mockler, and Ori Z. Soltes at the Arts Club of Washington. Co-hosts include Robert Bettmann, the founder of Day Eight (which publishes The Mid-Atlantic Review), Anne Becker, Holly Karapetkova, and Gregory Luce.


• April 26, 2026, 5:30-6:30 p.m.: Featured reader, along with Sunu Chandy, at Reston Readings, hosted by Northern Virginia Community College professor Nathan Leslie, Reston Used Book Shop, Reston, Va.

PAST

2026

• March 24, 2026: Led Pride Poetry Workshop: Queer Homage, Arts Club of Washington Pride Poets-in-Residence, Washington, D.C.

2025

• July 13, 2025: Featured reader for the launch of eff-able: a spicy anthology of queer crip poetry, online
• April 30, 2025: Featured reader for the launch of Grey Matter: An Anthology of Contemporary Medical Poems, online

2024

• October 19, 2024: Featured reader at the Open Doors Festival, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.
• August 24, 2024: Actor in the live reading of “Squishy But Firm: Sexcapades of a Crip Girl” by Regan Linton at the Kennedy Center Local Theatre Festival, Washington, D.C.
• May 25, 2024: Featured reader at Queering Sound Festival, Takoma, D.C.
• April 30, 2024: Featured reader at the launch event for the National Poetry Month issue of Grey Matter: A Narrative Medicine Poetry Journal, online
• April 19, 2024: My poem “Recipe for climate change” was interpreted into dance (view the recording) as part of the launch event for Stormwash: Environmental Poems, an anthology where 40 poets address the climate crisis and its various effects. This inter-arts program was presented by the Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington, Artists for Climate Awareness, the Writers Guild at Bloomington, Windfall Dancers, Inc., and percussionist Julian Douglas at the Art Alliance Center Flex Space in Bloomington, Indiana.
• March 7, 2024: Featured reader at DiVerse Gaithersburg Poetry Reading and Open Mic, Gaithersburg, Md.

2023

• October 15, 2023: Featured reader at No Place Like Home: Queering Sound celebrates Rhizome DC, Rhizome DC, Takoma, D.C.
• April 23, 2023: Featured reader at Kensington Day of the Book Festival, Kensington, Md.
• March 26, 2023: Featured reader at Climate Poetry and Action: Women’s History Month Edition, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.

2022

• August 20, 2022: Featured reader at Open Doors Festival: Arts + Disability, The REACH, Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
• August 5-7, 2022: Co-chair of OutWrite 2022, Washington, D.C.’s only LGBTQ+ literary festival, Washington, D.C.
• July 15, 2022: Featured reader on “DC Pride Poem-a-Day”, 1455 StoryFest, online
• March 25, 2022: Panelist on “Crip Time in Pandemic Times”, with Emily Rose Cole, Ellen Samuels, Travis Chi Wing Lau, and Kay Ulanday Barrett, AWP 2022, online

2021

• August 21, 2021: Launch of The Forgotten River: An Anacostia Swim Club member anthology, Day Eight DC Poet Project, online
• August 12, 2021: Featured speaker on “GEDSI and WASH Service Provisioning: Mainstreaming Social Inclusion” panel discussion, Accelerating Access Coalition, WRI India, online
• August 6-8, 2021: Co-chair of OutWrite 2021, Washington, D.C.’s only LGBTQ+ literary festival, Washington, D.C.
• July 24, 2021: Launch of WMN Taking Space, the third issue of WMN Zine, featuring work by dykes who identify as disabled and/or are living with a physical, sensory, cognitive, or chronic illness, online
• July 17, 2021: Invited by David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment from 2018-2024, to speak on a panel on “Intersectionality & the Environmental Movement” at the North American Consultation on Children’s Right to a Healthy Environment Phoenix Consultation, online
• July 15, 2021: Featured reader on “It’s All About Us: The Many Voices of Speculative Fiction and Poetry” (watch recording), 1455 StoryFest, online
• June 22, 2021: Featured reader for Queer Cookies Cookbook: LGBTQ+ Poetry and Cookie Recipes (read a review in The Washington Post), online
• May 14, 2021: Featured reader for “Dreams for Green: Poetry Release Party“, Unheard Poetry, online
• May 8, 2021: Featured reader for the launch of Queer Space Force: queer speculative fiction from Washington, D.C. (Neon Hemlock Press), edited by Dave Ring, online
• May 1, 2021: Featured reader for the 2021 DC Poet Project Series, online
• April 14, 2021: Featured reader for Writers Here and Now reading series, University of Maryland
• March 20, 2021: Panelist on “Writing at the Intersections”, Bay To Ocean Writers Conference 2021, online
• March 3-7, 2021: Panelist on “Disability’s Influence on Literature: Realism As A Craft Concept” (watch the recording), AWP 2021, online

2020

• September 3, 2020: Featured reader at Poetry Vibe Night, hosted by Ambi Narula, online
• August 23, 2020: Featured reader at Plants & Poetry Journal August poetry reading, online
• July 31-August 2, 2020: OutWrite 2020, Washington, D.C.’s only LGBTQ+ literary festival, Washington, D.C., online
• • Moderated the “Bi Writers Twitter Chat”, featuring Anthony Moll, Tyrese Coleman, Hannah Grieco, Chris Gonzalez, and Denarii Grace Monroe
  • Coordinated “Claiming Space: Decentering Poetic Narratives“, moderated by Regie Cabico, featuring Faylita Hicks, Nicole Shawan Junior, Imani Sims, and K-Ming Chang
  • Coordinated “Breath to Word: Poetry and Mindfulness“, moderated by Rasha Abdulhadi, featuring Malik Thompson, Carlito Espudo, Arisa White, and Aaminah Shakur
• July 10, 2020: Featured reader at virtual open mic night, Dwarf Artist Coalition, Little People of America, online
• *CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS: Panelist on “Out in the Open: LGBTQ Voices Across Genres”, 2020 Washington Writers Conference, Bethesda, Md.
• April 30, 2020: Led “Dispatches from our Planet’s Future: An Ecojustice Workshop“, a MoonLit DC workshop, online
• *CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS (April 26, 2020): Kensington Day of the Book Festival, Kensington, Md.
• April 14, 2020: Featured reader at Wilde Readings, online
• *CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS (March 28, 2020): Featured reader at “Disease and Disability: Using Poetry to Reveal & Empower”, Split This Rock 2020 Poetry Festival, Washington, D.C.
• POSTPONED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS (March 2020): Moderated “Disability’s Influence on Literature: Realism As A Craft Concept”, AWP 2020 (panel rescheduled for AWP 2021, watch the recording)

2019

• December 16, 2019: Organized “OutWrite Presents: Queering Up For the Holidays: A Poetry Reading and Open Mic“, The LINE Hotel, Washington, D.C.
• November 6, 2019: Featured reader at the lowercase, 826DC, Petworth Citizen Reading Room, Washington, D.C.
• October 15, 2019: Featured reader at Readings on the Pike, Acme Pie Company, Arlington, Va.
• OutWrite 2019, The DC LGBTQ+ Community Center, Washington, D.C.:
• • Moderated “Our Queer Mother Earth, Volume 2”
  • Moderated “Bi Bi Bi: Badass Bisexual Writers”
  • Panelist on “Too Queer, Too Crip”, moderated by Raymond Luczak
• July 7, 2019: Exhibitor at DC Art Book Fair #3, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
• June 18, 2019: Featured reader at The Inner Loop, Colony Club
• June 12, 2019: Poets in Protest Reading Series: LGBTQ+ Pride with C. Thomas, Rasha Abdulhadi, Angel, Mysfit, & Marlena Chertock, Loyalty Bookstores
• April 15 2019: Facilitated Split This Rock writing workshop
• March 2019: AWP 2019, Portland, Oregon
• • March 28, 2019: Panelist on “A Flash of Difference: Diversity and Inclusion in Flash Fiction“, moderated by Tara Campbell
  • March 28, 2019: Helped organize LGBTQ Writers Caucus
  • March 28, 2019: Assisted in running LGBTQ Writers Caucus Queer Mixer
  • March 29, 2019: Featured reader on “The Future is Disabled: A Reading of Disabled Writers on What’s Next“, (Raymond Luczak, Jess Silfa, Marlena Chertock, and Avery M. Guess)
• February 10, 2019:  Vendor at Punk Flea Market, DC9, Washington, D.C.
• January 21, 2019: Featured reader for Readings on the Pike, Josephine’s Italian Kitchen, Arlington, VA
• January 20, 2019: Featured reader for Little Patuxent Review’s “Witness” Winter 2019 launch reading
• June 18, 2019: Featured reader at The Inner Loop, Colony Club, Washington, D.C.
• July 7, 2019: Exhibitor at DC Art Book Fair #3, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

2018

• December 5, 2018: Facilitated Split This Rock community writing workshop, Washington, D.C.
• November 1, 2018: Panelist on “What Future” (Unnamed Press) book launch, Kramerbooks, Washington, D.C.
• September 19, 2018: Panelist on “(B)oddysey: Shapeshifters, Changelings, and Other Transformations“, East City Bookshop, Washington, D.C.
• September 7, 2018: Featured reader at Words Out Loud series, Glen Echo, Md.
• August 4, 2018: Moderated “We Will Not Be Erased” and featured reader on “Burn It All Down“, OutWrite 2018, Washington, D.C.
• June 8, 2018: Launch party for Stoked Words: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from the Capturing Fire Slam & Summit, Woolly Mammoth, Washington, D.C.
• June 9, 2018: Moderated “Our Queer Mother Earth: An Ecojustice & Climate Change Reading“, OutWrite 2018, The Potter’s House, Washington, D.C.
• May 20: Featured reader with Tatiana Figueroa-Ramirez for Sunday Kind of Love, Busboys & Poets 14th & V, Washington, D.C.
• May 10, 2018: Panelist on “The Future Is Still Queer“, an event by OutWrite, East City Bookshop, Washington, D.C.
• April 21, 2018: Panelist on “Fantasy as Reality: Activism and Catharsis through Speculative Writing“, Split This Rock 2018 festival, Washington, D.C.
• April 20, 2018: Featured reader at “Disobedient Futures“, part of Split This Rock’s 2018 poetry festival, Colony Club, Washington, D.C.
• April 8, 2018: Featured reader at DiVerse Gaithersburg Poetry Reading, Gaithersburg Library, Gaithersburg, Md.
• March 8, 2018: Panelist& on “#CripLit: Writing our Truths“, with Suzanne Bair, Jill Khoury, Minadora Macheret, and Nicole Oquendo, AWP 2018
• January 22, 2018: Featured reader at Café Muse reading series, Friendship Heights, Md.

2017

• November 18, 2017: Featured reader at Poetry and Tea with Diana Bolton, Washington, D.C.
• November 5, 2017: Exhibitor at the second D.C. Art Book Fair
• October 16, 2017: Featured reader at an intimate house event called Poetry & Chill, hosted by Sam Mahone, Washington, D.C.
• August 23, 2017: Crumb-sized book launch at East City Bookshop, Washington, D.C.
• OutWrite 2017, The DC LGBTQ+ Community Center, Washington, D.C.:
• • Moderated “‘Queer Enough’: People, Places & Identity” panel with Regie Cabico, Annabelle Jay, John Manuel-Arias, and Tyler Vile
  • Featured reader at “Tender/Ferocious” with Tommy Pico, David Eye, and Regie Cabico
  • Panelist on “Dignified“, on writing thoughtful depictions of disability and mental health, with Day Al-Mohammed, Sam J Miller, Sunny Moraine, and Amanda Gernentz Hanson
• August 2, 2017: Featured speaker on The Ask Rayceen Show “Authors’ Corner”, Human Rights Campaign, Washington, D.C.
• July 28, 2017: Featured reader at The Deaf Poets Society’s reading, Bards Alley, Vienna, Va.
• April 23, 2017: Featured reader on “Eco-SciFi: Dispatches from our Planet’s Future“, with Tara Campbell and Jacquelyn Bengfort, Artomatic, Arlington, Va.
• April 22, 2017: Poetry teach-in leader at the Poets for Science tent, March for Science, with Jane Hirshfield, Washington, D.C.
• April 15, 2017: Featured reader at District Lit/Redux poetry reading and open mic, Artomatic 2017, Arlington, Va.
• March 25, 2017: Featured reader at D.C. Support Women Artists Now, Washington, D.C.
• Feb. 10, 2017: Panelist on “Not Invisible: Editors of Literary Journals Speak Out on Disability and Building Inclusive Writing Communities”, AWP 2017
• Feb. 9, 2017: Helped organize The Inner Loop: AWP Edition reading with District Lit
• Jan. 2017: Lit Mag Love beta test workshop participant
• Jan. 2017: Hollows Shout the Mountain Down workshop participant

2016

• Nov. 12, 2016: Exhibited at DC Art + Book Fair, Washington, D.C.
• Nov. 5, 2016: Featured reader at Berl’s Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Oct. 14-15, 2016: Moderated “The Geography of Writing: Writing Where We Know”, Western Maryland Independent Lit Festival, Frostburg, Md.
• Sept. 14, 2016: Assisted in organizing District Lit (defunct) and Rhino Poetry reading
• Sept. 7, 2016: Led Split This Rock community writing workshop
• July 15, 2016: On that one-way trip to Mars book launch at Walls of Books (closed), Washington, D.C.
• May 29, 2016: Featured reader at TenderFM Vol. 5, Baltimore, Md.
• April, 15 2016: Participant on “Physical Bodies and Poetic Bones” panel at Split This Rock poetry festival
• Jan. 13, 2016: Contributing reader at Dear Robot: An Anthology of Epistolary Science Fiction , edited by Kelly Ann Jacobson, book launch at Upshur Street Books, Washington, D.C.

2015

• July 21, 2015: Featured reader at Inner Loop, Washington, D.C.
• June 27, 2015: Featured reader at KollaborationDC, College Park, Md.
• April 26, 2015: Featured reader at Kensington Day of the Book Festival, Kensington, Md.

2014

• March 23, 2014: Read at College Park Book Festival, College Park, Md.

2009-2013

• 2011-2013: Read at TerPoets, University of Maryland, Busboys and Poets open mics, College Park, Md.
• 2009-2011: Read at Arts & Letters open mics, Elon, N.C.