August 2, 2019
23rd Annual Book Signing on the Green Benefit for the Hotchkiss Library in Sharon, CT. Featured 30 authors and illustrators including Martha Hall Kelly, Henry Kissinger, George Packer, Roxana Robinson, Sarah Rose and Peter Steiner.

July 10, 2019
Panel discussion at New York State Summer Writers Institute (Skidmore College) with Madeline Miller and Adam Braver on writing the past

November 24, 2018
The Latecomers reading and presentation at the Winsted Community Bookstore

November 17, 2018
The Latecomers reading and presentation at Books & Company, Dayton, Ohio

November 6, 2018
The Latecomers Book launch! The White Hart Speaker Series in conjunction with Oblong Books & Scoville Memorial Library

April 3, 2017
Author talk to Guests of Free Masons, Cromwell, CT

March 30, 2017
Author Talk at Monroe Township Library, NJ  “How Real Life Impacts Fiction”

February 27, 2017
University of Indianapolis, Whirling Prize, Kellogg Writers Series

November 2, 2016
Launch of The Traveler’s Vade Mecum, NYPL, 42nd & 5th, NYC

October 8, 2016
Litquake Book Festival, San Francisco

September 3, 2016
Decatur Book Festival

August 11, 2016
Wine and Words Book Festival sponsored by Friends of Brainerd Public Library, Minnesota

May 21, 2016
Gaithersburg Book Festival, Edge of Your Seat Fiction Panel, Gaithersburg, MD

April 23, 2016
Reading at Barnes & Noble, New Hartford, NY

April 17, 2016
Three Muses Reading with poets Desirée Alvarez and Danniel Schoonbeek at The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center

April 9, 2016
Woodstock Writers Festival 

March 31, 2016
Reading at NYU Ireland House 

February 10, 2016
Reading at KGB Bar , NYC. Fiction night with Paul Beckman, Donna Ferrara, P. Casey Telesk for At The Inkwell.

January 31, 2016
Reading with Abigail Thomas at Hudson Valley Writers Center

January 27, 2016
Reading in conversation with Claire Messud at Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA

January 24, 2016
Reading/Signing at Books & Company, Dayton, Ohio

January 18, 2016
Interview with Martha Frankel on Woodstock Writers Radio

January 16, 2016
Reading/Signing at The White Hart Inn in Salisbury, CT. Hosted by Oblong Books and Scoville Memorial Library.

January 13, 2016
Reading/Signing at Book Court in Brooklyn. Ian Macallen wrote about it here.

January 12, 2016
Reading/Signing Barnes & Noble, Upper West Side, New York. Vine video here.

January 5, 2016
Launch reading at Barnes & Noble, Waterside Shops, Naples, Florida

June 2, 2014
New Jersey Library Association Conference
Kickoff Keynote Presenter:
Libraries in the Social Media Space

May 17, 2014 
Reading for Gigantic magazine
LitCrawl, Brooklyn

April 7, 2014 
Rosemont College MFA Reading Series
reading and writer’s craft talk

August 6, 2013 
Reading from MAKING IT at KGB Bar,
Manhattan

March 23, 2013 
Columbia University, New York
Guest Lecture,  How Not to Suck At Social Media

March 9, 2013 
South by Southwest Interactive,
Austin, Texas. Social Storytelling Meetup

February 16, 2013 
Scoville Memorial Library, Salisbury, CT
“Bringing Back Holleywood” lecture