Make Your Home Among Strangers has been selected as a First-Year Experience Read at 35 universities and counting!
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SELECTED READINGS
2019
The Witching Hour Festival · Iowa City, IA, November 2019
Texas Book Festival · Austin, TX, October 2019
Simmons College · Boston, MA, October 2019
Boston Book Festival · Boston, MA, October 2019
Southern Festival of the Book · Nashville, TN, October 2019
Georgia Southern University · Savannah, GA, October 2019
University of Nebraska–Lincoln · Lincoln, NE, September 2019
Books and Books · Miami, FL, September 2019
Decatur Book Festival · Decatur, GA, August 2019
Albion College, Isaac Symposium Keynote · Albion, MI, April 2019
2018
Vulture Festival, Roxane Gay and Amber Tamblyn present Feminist AF · New York, NY, May 2018
University of Miami · Miami, FL, March 2018
2017
Cornell University, Freund Prize Reading · Ithaca, NY, November 2017
Holy Names University · Oakland, CA, November 2017
Northern Illinois University · DeKalb, IL, October 2017
George Mason University, Fall for the Book Festival · Fairfax, VA, October 2017
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Reunion Celebration · Ripton, VT, October 2017
Elon University · Elon, NC, September 2017
Whitman College · Walla Walla, WA, September 2017
University of North Carolina–Asheville, Student Affairs · Asheville, NC, September 2017
Yakima Valley College, TRIO/Student Programs · Yakima, WA, May 2017
Purdue University, Latino Cultural Center, Center for Diversity and Inclusion · West Lafayette, IN, April 2017
Washington University at St. Louis, Keynote Speaker, Latinx Studies Symposium/Student Affairs · St. Louis, MO, February 2017
Books & Books, sponsored by FIU’s Cuban Research Institute · Coral Gables, FL, February 2017
2016
Vassar College, Department of Sociology, American Studies · Poughkeepsie, NY, November 2016
National Association of Orientation Directors · Indianapolis, IN, November 2016
Emerson College, Visiting Writers Series · Boston, MA, October 2016
University of Massachusetts Amherst · Amherst, MA, September 2016
Hollins College · Roanoke, VA, September 2016
University of the South, Visiting Writers Series · Sewanee, TN, July 2016
Bowling Green State University, Keynote Speaker, Latina/o Studies Conference · Bowling Green, OH, March 2016
Hialeah Public Library, JFK Branch · Hialeah, FL, March 2016
First Year Experience Programs National Conference · Orlando, FL, February 2016
Murray State University, Visiting Writers’ Series · Murray, IL, February 2016
2015
Elon University, Writer in Residence, Department of English · Elon, NC, November 2015
Montgomery College, Athenaeum Symposia & Speaker Series · Bethesda, MD, October 2015
Monmouth College, Scholar in Residence, Intercultural Student Life/Public Affairs/Modern Languages, Literatures, & Cultures/President’s Office · Monmouth, IL, October 2015
Elliot Bay Bookstore · Seattle, WA, October 2015
Seattle Lit Crawl, Women of Color Prose Reading · Fred Wildlife Refuge, Seattle, WA, October 2015
Austin Lit Crawl, The Austin Review Reading · Austin, TX, October 2015
Texas Book Festival · Austin, TX, October 2015
Books & Books · Coral Gables, FL, August 2015
University of Wisconsin–Plattville, Department of English · Plattville, WI, April 2015
Festival of Southern Literature · Chattanooga, TN, April 2015
North Carolina State University, Department of English · Raleigh, NC, February 2015
Colorado State University, Department of English · Fort Collins, CO, January 2015