Past Engagements

RISE: An Evening with the Ashley Bryan Fellows, Cocktail Mary/Oun Lido’s, Portland, ME, May 9th, 2026.

Bottle Episodes Chapbook Launch with Michael Colbert, Cocktail Mary/Oun Lido’s, Portland, ME, December 19th, 2025.

In Conversation with Sarah Perry for their book launch: SWEET NOTHINGS at PRINT: A Bookstore, Portland, ME July 22nd, 2025

Read to Me, Coco McCracken in conversation with Chloe Garcia Roberts, Lambs, Portland, ME, January 21st, 2025.

Terrible Writing by Great Authors, emcee and reader alongside William Dameron, Marpheen Chann, and others, Mechanics’ Hall, October 5, 2024.

PITCH Author’s Panel in conversation with Rebecca Turkewitz and Cameron Kelly Rosenblum, at Mechanics’ Hall, Sept 21, 2024.

Living Legacy: An Evening with the Ashley Bryan Fellows at Mechanics Hall in Portland, ME, January 18, 2024

PIGEON: Live Storytelling Event at Congress Square Park in Portland, ME, July 13 and August 10, 2023.

Ashley Bryan Fellows Reading at Port Veritas Equality Community Center, Portland, ME, June 27, 2023.

Art/Writing Performance at The Cabinet of Wonder Fundraiser, Mechanics Hall, Portland, ME, March 2, 2023.

“Fostering and Protecting the Creative Life,” Stonecoast MFA Lecture, Portland, ME, January 8, 2023.

AAPI Author Panel (with Terri Gerritsen, Jaed Coffin, and Marpheen Chann) at Empire Live!, Portland, ME May 16, 2023.

AAPI Author Panel for the Young Writers and Leaders Program with Jaed Coffin and Marpheen Chann at The Telling Room, December 20, 2023.

Conversation with Maine Senator Chellie Pingree with AAPI community for #StopAsianHate, March 25, 2021.

Juries

Hewnaoaks Artist Colony, Summer Residencies Literary Arts, 2026

Greater Columbus Arts Council, Artists Elevated Award, Literary Arts Juror 2024

Maine Literary Awards Juror, Non-fiction 2023

Emcee and Organizer

A reading from poets, writers, and change makers from the Ashley Bryan Fellows, to benefit ILAP Maine.

Featured Speaker

Bottle Episodes Chapbook Launch with Michael Colbert, Cocktail Mary/Oun Lido’s, Portland, ME, December 19th, 2025.

Featured Speaker

An evening with Ashley Bryan Fellows, Johan Alexander, Liz Iversen, and Leila Christine Nadir.

Extras