Literary Events

Featured Reader • Elizabeth Street Garden Poetry Night
A reading co-hosted by McNally Jackson Independent Booksellers
June 22, 2025

Featured Reader • Poets in Pajamas Reading Series
A virtual reading organized by Sundress Publications
May 2025

Featured Reader • Docupoetry Lab Reading
A multimedia reading organized by Emily Brandt
January 2025

Featured Reader • [untitled collective] reading at Unnameable Books
A poetry reading raising funds for a local literary nonprofit
Brooklyn, NY
August 2024

Host, Moderator, & Reader • There’s A Lot to Unpack Here x A Velvet Giant
Sponsored by The Poetry Society of New York
Unpacked AVG contributors' writing with the writers after each reading, my own writing with the PSNY director of programming, and AVG's story, mission, & community in front of a live audience
August 2023

Featured Guest • Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour
Discussed my writing and editorial experiences and read one of my poems for literary podcast
Listen to the interview & reading here
July 2023

Panelist • The Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival
“Journal Publishing, Editing and Submissions Panel and Q&A”
Representing A Velvet Giant
May 2023

Co-Organizer & Host of A Velvet Giant Readings • NYC Poetry Festival
Summers 2021, 2022, 2023

Featured Reader • Miss Manhattan Nonfiction Reading Series
Invited to read a personal essay in the lineup of the Sex & Dating themed reading
New York, NY
February 2020

Residencies

Residency • The Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA)
Short-term Residency for Hybrid Work, specifically video essay
Winter 2024
Offered Creative Nonfiction Short-term Residency for Spring 2025

Micro-Residency • The Poetry Society of New York
Residency in honor of Pride Month at Books are Magic in Brooklyn, NY
June 2019

Designated Alternate for Residency • Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
Cinematography (video essay / multimedia writing)
Summer 2018