Sat Sep 2	National Book Festival 3-3:45pm Poetry & Prose (with Peter Ho Davies) Walter E. Washington Convention Center 801 Mt. Vernon Place NW, Washington, DC (map)
Sun Sep 3	AJC Decatur Book Festival 1:15-2pm A Shifting View of Home (with Thrity Umrigar) Historic DeKalb Courthouse, Decatur, GA (map)
Sun Sep 10	Slice Literary Writers’ Conference 4:30-5:30pm Panel: A Writer’s Survival Guide St. Francis College, Room B 182 Remsen Ave., Brooklyn, NY (map)
Sun Sep 17	Brooklyn Book Festival 1pm Forces on a Family (with Owen Egerton and Hannah Tinti; moderated by Kevin Nguyen) Brooklyn Historical Library, 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY (map)
sun oct 1	Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga Street, Ithaca, NY (map)
Sat Oct 28	Boston Book Festival Boston, TX
Sat- Sun Nov 4-5	Texas Book Festival Austin, TX
THU NOV 9	NY Library Association Annual Conference Saratoga Springs, NY
Sat- Sun Nov 17-18	Miami Book Fair Miami, FL

Past Events

MON JuL 31	Books Beneath the Bridge 7pm Granite Prospect, Brooklyn Bridge Park Brooklyn, NY (map) Curated by WORD Bookstore. I’ll be reading with Rakesh Satyal.
WED Jul 26	One Story Magazine Presents: Lisa Ko in Conversation with Patrick Ryan 7pm Community Bookstore 143 7th Ave., Brooklyn, NY (map) I’ll be in conversation with One Story editor-in-chief Patrick Ryan.
WED Jul 12	Literary Death Match 8pm The Bell House 149 7th St., Brooklyn, NY (map)
TUE Jul 11	LIC Reading Series 8pm LIC Bar 45-58 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City, NY (map) Reading with Angelica Baker and Courtney Maum.
Thu Jun 22	Freya Project Reading 7pm Elsa 136 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY (map) Ticketed event. All proceeds will benefit the Family Tree Clinic.
Thu Jun 15	Pete’s Reading Series 7:30pm Pete’s Candy Store 709 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, NY (map) I’m reading with Julia Fierro and Alice Kaltman.
Tue Jun 13	Talk of the Stacks 7pm Minneapolis Central Library 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN (map)
Mon Jun 12	Boswell Book Company 7pm 2559 N. Downer Ave. Milwaukee, WI (map)
Sun Jun 11	Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest 11:00-11:45am Borders and Belonging: Lisa Ko and Gina Frangello in conversation with Amy Danzer Jones College Prep, 4th Floor, 4034 700 S. State Street, Chicago, IL (map)
Fri Jun 9	Powell’s Books 7:30pm Powell’s City of Books 1005 W. Burnside Street, Portland, OR (map) In conversation with Megan Labrise of Fully Booked with Kirkus Reviews.
Thu Jun 8	Vroman’s Bookstore 7pm 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA (map) In conversation with Neelanjana Banerjee, author and managing editor of Kaya Press.
Wed Jun 7	Elliott Bay Book Company 7pm 1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle, WA (map)
Tue Jun 6	Book Passage 7pm 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA (map)
Mon Jun 5	Books, Inc. Alameda 7pm 1344 Park Street, Alameda, CA (map) In conversation with Donia Bijan, author of The Last Days of Cafe Leila.
Thu Jun 1	Parnassus Books 7pm 3900 Hillsboro Pike Suite 14, Nashville, TN (map) In conversation with Weike Wang, moderated by Ann Patchett.
Thu May 25	Asian American Writers’ Workshop White People and Asian Dropouts: with Ed Lin, Jade Sharma, and Zohra Saed 7pm 112 W. 27th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY (map)
Wed May 17	Harvard Book Store 7pm 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA (map)
TUE May 16	Point Street Reading Series 7pm Point Street Dueling Pianos 3 Davos Square, Providence, RI (map) Reading with Jamie Brenner, Leah Carroll, Boris Fishman, and David Leite.
Fri May 12	One Story Debutante Ball 7:30-11pm Roulette 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY (map) Tickets required.
Thu May 11	An Evening with the One Story Literary Debutantes 7:30pm Greenlight Bookstore Fort Greene 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY (map) I’ll be reading with Sam Allingham, Angelica Baker, Clare Beams, Julie Buntin, Anne Corbitt, Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, Emily Ruskovich, and Melissa Yancy.
Tue May 9	Brooklyn Launch: Greenlight Bookstore, Prospect Lefferts Gardens 7:30pm Greenlight Bookstore Prospect Lefferts Gardens 632 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (map) The Brooklyn launch of The Leavers! I’ll be in conversation with Hillary Jordan, fellow PEN/Bellwether prize winner and author of Mudbound.
Fri-Sat May 5-6	Booktopia 2017 Northshire Bookstore 4869 Main Street, Manchester Center, VT (map)
Wed May 3	PEN America World Voices Festival: Literary Quest, Tenement Edition 6:30-10:30pm Lower East Side Tenement Museum 103 Orchard Street, New York, NY (map) With Laurie Anderson, Teju Cole, Jennifer Egan, Vivian Gornick, and Min Jin Lee. Tickets required.
Tue May 2	Manhattan Launch: Barnes & Noble, Upper East Side 7-9pm 150 East 86th Street, New York, NY (map) Celebrate the launch of The Leavers on its publication day! I’ll be in conversation with Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman.
MON aPr 3	Life After the MFA 7-9pm City College of New York Shepard Hall, Room 95 (map) Alumni of CCNY’s MFA program in creative writing discuss their paths to publication. With Heather Archibald, Jessie Chaffee, Brendan Kiely, JP Howard, Caits Meissner, Tracy O’Neill, and Hasanthika Sirisena. Moderated by Emily Raboteau.
WED MaR 29	Drunken Boat Reading at KGB Bar 7-9pm 85 East 4th Street, New York, NY (map) I’ll be reading with fellow Drunken Boat editors and staff members, including María José Giménez, Kira Josefsson, and Cecily Schuler.
Fri Feb 1	AWP Conference, Washington DC 1:30pm-2:45pm The Transnational Novel Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four (map) 4:30-5:45pm To the Finish Line: Completing and Promoting the Novel Room 204AB, Washington Convention Center, Level Two (map)
Sat-Sun Jan 28-29	American Booksellers Association’s Winter Institute Hyatt Regency 1300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN (map)
Tue Aug 16 2016	An Evening of Readings Featuring New York Foundation for the Arts Literary Fellows and PEN America Members 7:30pm Greenlight Bookstore Fort Greene 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY (map)
Fri-Sat Apr 29-30 2016	Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Open Studios Reading: Saturday, April 30, 6-8pm 28 Liberty Street, 19th Floor, New York, NY (map)

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