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Upcoming Events

September 14, 2015
Ferguson Is the Future
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

October 16, 2015
Bankhead Reading Series
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL

October 21, 2015
Lit Crawl LA
Los Angeles, CA

March 30 - April 2, 2016
AWP Conference
Los Angeles, CA

May 27 - 30, 2016
Guest of Honor at WisCon 40
Madison, WI


Recent News

Two of my short stories will appear in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, scheduled for release this fall.

The Huffington Post put me on their list of 14 Women Writers Who Dominate the Universe of Sci-Fi.


Past Events

March 12 - 15, 2015
Mennonite/s Writing Conference
Fresno Pacific University
Fresno, CA

March 7, 2015
Santa Barbara Women's Literary Festival
Santa Barbara, CA

December 2 - 3, 2014
Symposium for African Writers
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

November 6 - 9, 2014
World Fantasy Convention
Washington, DC

August 30, 2014
SFWA Southern California Reading Series (with Stephen Blackmoore and Sherwood Smith)
Redondo Beach, CA

July 16, 2014
Fantastic Fiction at KGB (with Victor LaValle)
New York, NY

July 10 - 13, 2014
Readercon
Burlington, MA

June 20, 2014
Long Hidden West Coast Launch Party
Los Angeles, CA

May 15 - 18, 2014
Nebula Awards Weekend
San Jose, CA

March 19 - 23, 2014
The 35th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA): "Fantastic Empires"
Orlando, FL

December 19, 2013
The Empty Globe
Betalevel, Los Angeles, CA

November 30, 2013
Indies First!
Borderlands Books, San Francisco, CA

November 9, 2013
Stories Behind the Stories: CSUCI English Faculty Reading and Discussion
E.P. Foster Library, Ventura

May 24 - 27, 2013
WisCon 37
Madison, WI

April 26, 2013
A Stranger in Olondria Launch Party
A Room of One’s Own Bookstore
Madison, WI