Readings/Events

• October 25, 2019 at 7:30pm. Stories On Stage Sacramento. Performed by Justine Lopez. The Auditorium at CLARA. 1425 24th Street.
• October 21, 2019. Capital Public Radio interview on Insight with Beth Ruyak. Sacramento, California.
• November 1 – 3, 2018. NonfictioNOW. Phoenix, Arizona.
• September 11 – September 25, 2018 Writing Residency at Millay Colony for the Arts. Steepletop. Austerlitz, New York.
• October 14, 2017 at 6:30pm: San Francisco Lit Crawl: An Evening with The Rumpus at The Laundry Gallery and Cafe, 3359 26th Street, San Francisco.
• April 22, 2017 at 8:00pm: Now Hear This: A Story & Music Performance Series at Gold Lion Arts, 2733 Riverside Blvd, Sacramento, California
• February 10, 2017 at 6:00pm: #AWP17 offsite CNF Reading: with readers from Under the Gum Tree, Fourth Genre and River Teeth, at Shaw’s Tavern in Washington DC
• March 5, 2016 at 2:00pm: Scriptorium Saturday at Ella McClatchy Library in Sacramento, California
• October 17, 2015 at 6:00pm: PAWA Lit Crawl Reading: In The Ring (Organizer)
• October 4, 2015 at 1:45pm: Filipino American International Book Festival (FilBookFest) On the Body #allpinayeverything panel
• October 23, 2014 at 7:00pm: True Story Nonfiction Reading at Shine in Sacramento, California
• March 24, 2013 at 1:00pm: Soul Making Keats Literary Competition Awards Reading at San Francisco Public Library, Main, Koret Auditorium, followed by reception
• April 19, 2012 at 3:00pm: CSU Sacramento Festival of the Arts Creative Writing Alumni Reading, Featuring Jen Palmares Meadows and Simone Youngblood at CSUS Library Galleria
• July 6, 2011: The 8th Annual Interdisciplinary Writers Lab 2011 Literary Reading & Online Anthology Launch: Chicken Skin & Impossible Trees, Featuring IWL Participants and Instructors, Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco
• July 7, 2011 at 7:00pm: The 8th Annual Interdisciplinary Writers Lab 2011 Literary Reading & Online Anthology Launch: Chicken Skin & Impossible Trees + Litquake’s Journey to the Epicenter Reading, Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco
• October 28, 201o at 6:30pm: Walang Hiya Reading, Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga
• September 20, 2010 at 7:30pm: Calaveras Station Reading, Sacramento Poetry Center

Writing Workshops

• Pinays Write!
• April & May, 2011: The 8th Annual Interdisciplinary Writers Lab: A multidisciplinary, experimental writers’ workshop. A Program of Kearny Street Workshop, Intersection for the Arts and AMATE: Women Painting Stories. Guest artists: Jaime Cortez, Cheryl Dunye, Leticia Hernandez and Brenda Wong Aoki.
• February 26, 2010: Bridging Our Literary commUNITY: A Literary Symposium at San Francisco State University. Hosted by Pilipino American Collegiate Endeavor (PACE) at SFSU & Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc. (PAWA) present. Workshops with Barbara Jane Reyes, Tony Robles and Janet Stickmon
• July 2008: CSU Summer Arts 2008, Writing The Memoir at CSU Fresno. Guest Artists: Doug Rice, Steven Church, Carole Maso and William T. Vollmann.