Upcoming Events
Romance Con at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library
Moderator: panel on romance series with authors Abby Millsaps, Jessica Booth, Elle Wright, & Sherelle Green
November 8, 2025: full schedule TBA at the link
AWP Conference & Bookfair: Baltimore 2026
Panelist: A Psalm for the Wild Teacher: Building Genre Fiction Workshops That Inspire (with Jennifer Pullen; Dave Essinger; Brooke Wonders; & Snowden Wright)
Gone are the days of hiding genre writing like kids reading comics under the covers. If creative writing programs are to survive both dwindling enrollment and a robot apocalypse, we must develop workshops of interest to 21st century writers. Genre fiction strategies and knowledge are required in the inclusive teacher’s toolkit. With hopepunk for the future, escape with us to our well-stocked bunker for genre-specific teaching tactics that are resonant, joyful, subversive, swoon-worthy, and fun. Panelists will present workshop tips for fantasy, sci fi, romance, horror, and crime.
March 4-7, 2026: full schedule at the link
Past Events & Press
Chicago-North Romance Writers Craft Talk: “Quickies: Writing & Publishing Flash Fiction Romance” June 21, 10AM CST
Summer Creative Writing Workshops Craft Talk & Generative Workshop “Trope-tastically Yours: Originality in the Romance Genre” July 18; 9AM-4PM EST; Marathon Center for Performing Arts, Findlay, Ohio
Northwest Ohio Teen Book Festival, March 15, 2025, Rossford High School
Breakout session: Sparking Creativity with Collage Poetry
Toledo Voices, March 16, 2025, Toledo Repertoire Theatre
Staged reading of my original play, A House of Uncanny Repute
Romance Con, November 2, 2024, Toledo Lucas County Public Library
Craft talk on freelance publishing for the women’s magazine market
Poetry at Hayner: A Mosaic of Voices
Featured poet; June 8, 2024
Winter Wheat: The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing, November 11, 2023
Borrow & Steal: Creative Writing Pedagogy in the Composition Classroom
A Damned Mob of Scribbling Women: Progressive Era Writers
Wood County Museum Tea & Talk series; 2022
