In 2024

On April 10th I read with the KGB Fantastic Fiction Series along with Robert Levy

In 2022

On Oct 9th I appeared at NYComicCon on panels "Building on the Bones: Retold and Reimagined" and "The Future is Not Unwritten"

On Sept 17th I appeared as a featured author at the Albany Book Festival.

On Aug 26th I appeared on a panel for the book launch event for the Terraform anthology
at P&T Knitwear in NYC. My story "A Song for You" appears in the anthology.

On May 4th I was a guest on Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday via Instagram Live to discuss my novel Destroyer of Light

On Feb 18th I participated virtually in Boskone 59. My program guide page here.

In 2021

Dec 13 read at the Franklin Park Reading Series along with Tiphanie Yanique, Marlowe Granados, Alex McElroy, and Michael Seidlinger. (directions)

Oct 27 appeared on TDA Read the Room panel along with Cat Valente and L. E. Modesitt Jr. and moderated by Thomas Olde Heuvelt for a live discussion.

Aug 8 read an excerpt from Destroyer of Light for the NYRSF Reading Series

June 22 To celebrate Octavia E. Butler’s 74th birthday with the Carl Brandon Society, I was a part of a group reading of "The Book of the Living," the sacred text of her Parable series!

June 8 participated in a virtual panel with Edelweiss Bookfest along with Ryka Aoki and Claire North and moderated by Adron Buske for a conversation centered on what it means to be human in the tomorrow, transformation in the face of great change, the search for connection, and conjuring new visions for the future.

In 2020

Dec 1 via Zoom read for Wreath of Strength, a holiday event celebrating Barrier Free Living and their work with domestic violence survivors and their families. Please give generously!

Oct 23 via Zoom appeared on the "Anxiety, Rage, and Attempting the Impossible in a World on Fire" panel for the Sirens Conference with Ruoxi Chen, Joy Kim, Suzi Rogers Gruber, Isabel Schechter, K.B. Wagers, and moderated by K. Tempest Bradford. Follow the conference with #SirensAtHome See the archived video.

Oct 16 via Zoom appeared on the "Writers: How I Got Published" panel for the Gotham Writers Conference.

Aug 15 via Zoom appeared at the virtual convention ReCONvene for the panel The Distant Future in Science Fiction along with Adrian Tchaikovsky, Steven Barnes, Brother Guy Consolmagno, and Sharon Lee

July 1 via Zoom appeared on Gotham Writers' Workshops' Inside Writing talk show. The show featured myself and agent DongWon Song to talk about "Inside Science Fiction & Fantasy." Watch the discussion on YouTube.

Feb 18 - 22 attended the Afrofuturism conference Planet Deep South in Atlanta, GA

In 2019

July 18 appeared on the panel "The Legacy of Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue Trilogy: The Past and Future of Feminist Science Fiction" hosted by The Feminist Press and held at Books Are Magic, Brooklyn, NY

June 15 - 21 attended the Sycamore Hill Writers' Workshop in the Blue Ridge Mountains along Craig Laurance Gidney, John Kessel, James Patrick Kelly, Sarah Pinsker, Kelly Link, Gavin J. Grant, K. Tempest Bradford, Karen Joy Fowler, Christopher Rowe, Maureen McHugh, Usman Malik, and Richard Butler.

In 2018

Aug 11 was on the Sci-Fi/Fantasy panel for the annual Writer's Digest Conference in NYC along with Chuck Wendig, Jeff Somers, Ann VanderMeer, Emily "EJ" Wenstrom, and Diana Pho.

Aug 7 read at the Sunspot Jungle anthology's Launch/Reading Party along with Nadia Bulkin, Mame Bougouma Diene, Sunny Moraine, Nikhil Singh, and Sabrina Vourvoulias for the NYRSF Reading Series at the Brooklyn Commons Cafe. Here is a video of the event!

May 25 - 28 attended WisCon 42 in Madison, WI #WisCon42

May 13 a presention by the Queens Museum that is a collaborative sound art project called Soundtrack became available for download (also available on Soundcloud). This work is part of the Mel Chin: All Over the Place exhibit with project curator Jace Clayton (aka DJ /rupture) which includes a reading by me from my novel Elysium.

April 6 read with Virtual Futures at the New School, NYC. Other readers include Tim Maughan, Joanne McNeil, and Brendan C. Byrne.

March 3 read with the Linebreak Reading Series in Astoria, Queens, NYC. Other readers include Nancy Hightower, Renee Mariotti, Jonathan Sumpter, and Rachel Voss.

Feb 6 read with the NYRSF Reading Series for the Welcome to Dystopia anthology with editor Gordon Van Gelder at the Brooklyn Commons Cafe. Other readers include Rick Bowes, Deji Bryce Olukotun, Leo Vladimirsky, and Paul Witcover. (view the Telecast)

In 2017

Nov 6 had a reading and Q&A at BMCC's Writers' Guild

Oct 18 read at the KGB Fantastic Fiction with James Patrick Kelly and here is a podcast of me reading a section from my new novel Eleusis there.

July 29 read at the 1st BLERD City Conference in Brooklyn for the "Propulsion of Black Aesthetic Mixtape Parables: SciFi, Horror, Fantasy Author Panel" with Sheree Renée Thomas, Jacqueline Johnson, Shawn Frazier, Kiiini Ibura Salaam (see pics)

May 28 read at the Queens Book Festival

April 22 read on the "Blue Black Magic Women" panel with the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM) at the Bronx Museum of the Arts with Sheree Renée Thomas, Ibi Zoboi, and Kiiini Ibura Salaam

April 8 read at LunaCon 2017 in Tarrytown, NY

Feb 15 had a discussion with Jaed Coffin's writing class at UNH via Skype

In 2016

Oct 18 taught the writing workshop "Landscapes of the Page: Rethinking How A Story Can Reveal Itself" for the Sirens Studio event at the Sirens Conference in Denver, CO (see pics)

Aug 7 moderated a panel discussion on Speculative Fiction at the Queens Book Festival

June 28 was a guest speaker at Nancy Hightower's Science Fiction class at Hunter College

June 25 appeared on a panel discussion with Malka Older and editor Tim O'Connell (Vintage) on Breaking into Speculative Fiction for the Asian-American Writers' Workshop (AAWW) Conference.

June 15 read with Geoff Wisner at Bruce's Garden Summer Readings Series

May 25 read at the Invisible Universe Fundraiser at RAW Space/Imagenation, NYC

April 8 appeared on a panel at the CUNY Graduate Center to discuss Sci-Fi Alien(ation): Diversity Under Attack, Racism, Homophobia, & Sexism at Hugo Awards & Beyond. Here is a video and a review of the event.

In 2015

Dec 17 was interviewed on Hour of the Wolf w/ Jim Freund on WBAI

July 11 read with the Tabula Rasa Writers' Group at ReaderCon with Terence Taylor and Barbara Krasnoff

June 11 was the guest author at Sheila William's Book Club in NYC

May 24 read at WisCon 39 in the "Reading Divas" Panel with N.K. Jemisin, Alaya Dawn Johnson, and Mikki Kendall

April 3 was a guest at Norwescon 38 as a Philip K. Dick Award nominee where I received the Philip K. Dick Special Citation. Watch the ceremony and see the pics.

March 12 did a reading and discussion on the panel "The Black Imagination and the Surreal: Issues and Ideas of the Aesthetic" at the Astro-Blackness 2 Conference in Los Angeles, CA (see pics)

Feb 3 read with Carlos Hernandez at the NYRSF Reading Series

In 2014

Dec 3 was interviewed on Hour of the Wolf w/ Jim Freund on WBAI

Nov 6 read at the World Fantasy Con in Washington, D.C.

Nov 3 was interviewed by the Adventures in Science Fiction Publishing podcast

Oct 9 appeared on Dive into Worldbuilding! with Juliette Wade

Sept 8 read with The Franklyn Park Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY with other readers Justin Taylor, Marie-Helene Bertino, Scott Cheshire, and Dolan Morgan.

May 25 moderated the panel "Afrofuturism: Black to the Future" at WisCon 38 with Inda Lauryn, Ian K. Hagemann, Sheree Renée Thomas

May 24 appeared on the #solidarityisforwhitewomen Panel at WisCon 38 with Mikki Kendall, Tonya DePass, and Chesya Burke

May 24 read at WisCon 38 with "Aqueduct Press: Renaissances"

May 3 presented my paper “The Eleusinian Mysteries of Octavia E. Butler: The Mother-Daughter Struggle in Parable of the Talents” at the Buffy to Batgirl Conference, Rutgers University