Readings and Classes
Where I'll be next:
The Upper Peninsula Writers Symposium
“Place-Based Writing: Using Landscape and Memory to Shape Story"
Hessel School House, MI (June 13, 2026)
And here are some of the places I've been:
The Roethke House, Saginaw, MI (June 2025)
Munising Public Library, Munising, MI (July 2025)
Elk Rapids Public Library / Townline Cider, Elk Rapids, MI (July 2025)
Bellaire Public Library / Bee Well Meadery, Bellaire, MI (July 2025)
Wirt Public Library, Bay City, MI (September 2025)
Sleepy Dog Books, Mt. Pleasant, MI (October 2025)
Portage Lake Library, Houghton, MI (October 2025)
Calumet Library, Calumet, MI (October 2025)
North Wind Books, Hancock, MI (October 2025)
Authors Pop-up Holiday Book Fair, Traverse City, MI (December 2025)
Writing North Winter Book Festival Manistique, MI (February 29 and March 30, 2026)
Biere de Mac "Tap Talk" Mackinaw City, MI (March 4, 2026)
Other Places to Find Me
Hosting a monthly radio show, "Write Here, Write Now," featuring interviews with Michigan writers (and the occasional visiting writer), talking about the craft and their work. Check it out on Village Radio, FM 97.7.
Serving as the Acquisitions Editor for The Midwest Authors Series, created by Chad Pastotnik at Deep Woods Press.
Teaching for The National Writers Series "Raising Writers" program at Central Lake Elementary School in the winter, and teaching composition and literature classes for Saginaw Valley State University in the fall.
Volunteering with Poetic Justice, exchanging poetry every few weeks with an incarcerated woman via email.
Writing "Book Muse," a monthly substack blog with short book reviews of books I've read and loved.
Coordinating The Antrim Writers Series (see below. This is my favorite project!)
The Antrim Writers Series
Over the past few years, I've been lucky enough to coordinate the Antrim Writers Series, where Michigan writers come to Antrim County to read their work and lead a writing workshop for our area residents. Each author gets to create a piece of writing celebrating our county's (many) natural areas, which is displayed on a sign and placed on location. Learn more at crosshatch.org/writers.
Past authors include Anne-Marie Oomen, Jerry Dennis, Keith Taylor, Brittany Cavallaro, Mary Kay Zuravleff, Fleda Brown, John Mauk, Des Cooper, Christine Maul Rice, and Teresa Scollon.
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