Readings and Talks

2024 “Third Coast Translator’s Collective: Nearing the Quick Reading,” ALTA Conference 2024

2024 Q&A with Poupeh Missaghi, Pilsen Community Bookstore

2024 “Women in Translation Month” Reading, Women & Children First Bookstore

2024 Q&A with Brittany Means, Women & Children First Bookstore

2022 “Le figure femminili e il femminismo di Maria Corti,” Festival Maria Corti, Puglia

2022 “Adrienne Rich e la Traduzione,” Biblioteca Salaborsa, Bologna

2021 “Writing About Classical Music,” Governor’s School of North Carolina

2021 “Inspiration Talk Series,” University of Iowa English Society

2017-20      University of Iowa Speakeasy Reading Series

2019           Prairie Lights/IWP Reading Series, Prairie Lights Bookstore

2018           Vermont Studio Center Reading Series, Old First Church

2015           Brooklyn Nonfiction Prize Reading, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY

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Service

2025 University of Iowa, English Department, Publishing Track development

2024 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Admissions Jury

2022 Festival della Cultura Ucraina a Palermo: “Ucraina. La terra di confine,” Staff

2021 Festival delle Letterature Migranti, Staff

2020       University of Iowa, NWP, “Lifetime Achievement Service Award”

2019           Vermont Studio Center, Admissions Jury

2019           University of Iowa, NWP, Student Ambassador

2019 University of Iowa, English Department Textbook Committee

2017-20      University of Iowa, NWP, community masterclasses in creative writing