Events

Readings/Performances/Workshops

Upcoming:

• Double Exposure, Maria Goodson book release, Akinoga Press, April 9th, 2022, featured reader
• The Candle Moth, Dave K. book release, Akinoga Press, February 25th, 2022, featured reader
• Writers LIVE! Elizabeth Gilbert, Enoch Pratt Public Library, April 28th 2021, interview
• Host, Writers & Words, a Baltimore Reading Series. 2016-2020
• Meeting the Moment: Conversations About the Arts in the Age of Black Lives Matter, hosted by Howard County Poetry & Literature Society & Howard Community College’s Arts Collective, October 4, 2020, panelist
• Virtual Gal Pal Book Club: Black is the Body by Emily Bernard hosted by Discover Charm City in conjunction w/ Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD, September 12, 2020, panelist
• The Lines Between Us, Author Salon w/ Lawrence Lanahan, Charm City Books, March 6, 2020, interview
• Tire Fire, Tattooed Mom, January 23, 2020, featured reader
• Wilde Reading Series, Columbia Arts Association, Columbia, MD, November 12, 2019, featured reader
• City Lit Festival 2019, Truth & Trauma: How We Write Authentic Stories of Pain, University of Baltimore, April 27, 2019, panelist
• Yellow Arrow Publishing workshop: Finding Your Authentic Voice , Y-Art Gallery, Baltimore, February 23, 2019, co-facilitator
• In Our Own Words reading series by Zora’s Den, Nancy by Station North Arts Cafe, Baltimore February 21, 2019, featured reader
• “Truth-telling & Reflection aka Memoir,” Zora’s Den, Eubie Blake Cultural Center, Baltimore, December 21, 2018, guest facilitator
• Drinking Club Vol. 5, Station North, Baltimore, November 17, 2018 , reader
• The Inner Loop reading series @ Solid State Books, DC, September 18, 2018, reader
• Yellow Arrow Publishing’s Memoir Night, First Fridays Art Walk in Highlandtown, Dennis Moore Pottery Studio, Baltimore, June 1, 2018, featured reader
• Alumni Cabaret @Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, June 2, 2017, reader
• Hey You, Come Back! @The Crown , Baltimore, November 3, 2016, featured reader
• Hollowed, @ Charmington’s, Baltimore, October 27, 2016, featured reader
• Literary Roulette 2016 @ The Ottobar, Baltimore, October 4th, 2016, featured reader
• Baltimore Book Festival, Writers & Words @ Ivy Bookshop Stage, September 24, 2016 co-host
• Girl Power MeetUp– DC, July 17, 2016, guest speaker
• The Big Show @ Creative Alliance, Baltimore, June 25, 2016, reader
• Words & Wine @ Spirits of Mt. Vernon, Baltimore, May 24, 2016, featured reader
• Writers and Words @ Charmington’s, Baltimore January 12, 2016, featured reader
• Baltimore Book Festival @ Ivy Bookshop Stage, University/MFA Writers Program, September 27, 2015, featured reader
• Literary Roulette @ The Ottobar, Baltimore, August 6, 2015, read excerpt from David Mamet’s film Glengarry Glen Ross
• The REJECT Reading, Volume 2 @ Charmington’s, Baltimore, January 31, 2015, featured reader
• Emerging Voices, University of Baltimore: “Spring Story Slam”, May 7, 2014, hair story, featured storyteller
• Second Stoop, storytelling series: “Hair!” @ The Windup Space, Baltimore, April 24, 2014 Cija @ Hair!, storyteller