Events
MARCH 4-7, 2026
ONLINE
AWP Conference
Virtual Panel: Writing the Surreal in Speculative YA Literature
in conversation with A.S. King and Nova Ren Suma, moderated by E.G. Young
Past Events
JUNE 25, 2024
New York, NY
Meta HQ: Pride Book Fair presented by @Threads
1:30 pm: Book signing at booth #19 (Yu & Me’s table)
FEBRUARY 9-11, 2024
New York, NY
SCBWI Winter Conference 2024
8:45 am: Creative Lab: Storytelling Structure: Lining Up the Bones of a YA Novel
1:30 pm: Autograph session
NOVEMBER 17-26, 2023
Singapore
Singapore Writers Festival
Saturday, 5 pm: Meet the Author: An Arrow to Your Heart
interviewed by Felicia Low-Jimenez
Sunday, 3 pm: It’s An Interdimensional Love Story
in conversation with Thea Guanzon and Gina Chew, moderated by Charlene Shepherdson
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Online
The Pixel Project: Read for Pixels
8:30 pm ET: Live Reading and Q&A
MAY 20, 2023
Online
Gotham Children’s Book Conference
12:15 pm ET: Mythology in Children’s Literature
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Brooklyn, NY
Books Are Magic: She is a Haunting Launch
7:00 pm: Celebrating Trang Thanh Tran’s debut novel
NOVEMBER 19, 2022
Anaheim, CA
NCTE Annual Convention
8:00 am: Destination Unexpected: How Stories and Information Prepare Us for Change, Exploration, and Finding Community (Room 202-B)
3:30 pm: Book signing (Booth 1018)
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
New York, NY
Yu and Me Books: Unwieldy Creatures Launch
5:30 pm: Celebrating Addie Tsai’s latest novel
OCTOBER 9, 2022
New York, NY
New York Comic Con
3:00 pm ET: Building on the Bones: Retold and Reimagined (1C03)
OCTOBER 2, 2022
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Book Festival
2:00 pm: Not What It Seems (with Angeline Boulley and Victoria Lee, moderated by Eliot Schrefer)
at the Center for Brooklyn History, 128 Pierrepont St.
JUNE 28, 2022
New York, NY
Books Are Magic: Launch event for Our Crooked Hearts
7:00 pm ET: Celebrating Melissa Albert’s latest novel
MAY 21, 2022
San Antonio, TX
San Antonio Book Festival
2:45 pm CT: Edge of Seventeen panel in Coates Chapel
with Lizz Huerta and Natalia Sylvester
MAY 12, 2022
Online
Barnes & Noble Mental Health Panel: You Are Not Alone
in conversation with Robin Benway, Kathleen Glasgow, Adib Khorram, moderated by Regine Galanti PhD, Clinical Psychologist
7:00 pm ET
MAY 5, 2022
New York, NY
Housing Works: Launch event for Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak
5:00 pm ET: Celebrating Charlie Jane’s latest novel
APRIL 25-28, 2022
Fort Worth, TX
Texas Library Association Conference
8:30 am CT: Tayshas Reading Lists’ Authors in Room 201BC
with Sabaa Tahir, Jeff Zentner, and Traci Chee
APRIL 23, 2022
Los Angeles, CA
L.A. Times Festival of Books
12:00 pm PT: Love the One You Want panel in Taper Hall 201
APRIL 14, 2022
Online
Tattered Cover: Celebrating An Arrow to the Moon and Lakelore
7:00 pm ET: in conversation with author Anna-Marie McLemore
APRIL 12, 2022
Online
Politics & Prose: Launch event for An Arrow to the Moon
6:30 pm ET: in conversation with author Sabaa Tahir
APRIL 11, 2022
New York, NY
Books of Wonder: Launching An Arrow to the Moon
6:00 pm ET: in conversation with author Melissa Albert
MARCH 25, 2022
Portland, OR
Public Library Association Annual Conference
10:00 am PT: Signing books in Booth 1324
11:30 am PT: Crossover Appeal Program in Room B113-116
JUNE 5-6, 2020
Online
The Center for Fiction: YA Writing Bootcamp
2:00 pm EDT on both days: “Lining Up the Bones of a Y.A. Story”
JANUARY 27, 2021
Online
Porter Square Books: Launch event for Last Night at the Telegraph Club
7:00 pm EST: in conversation with author Malinda Lo
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Online
New York Public Library: TeenLIVE via the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
4:00 pm EST: in conversation with YA librarian Susen Shi
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Online
Malaprop’s Bookstore: FORESHADOW Digital Tour Stop
7:00 pm EDT: Risky Behavior
a craft and storytelling conversation with Nova Ren Suma, and New Voices Rachel Hylton & Sophie Meridien
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
Online
Porter Square Books: FORESHADOW Digital Tour Stop
7:00 pm EDT: Where the Magic Carries Us
a craft and storytelling conversation with Nova Ren Suma, and New Voices Linda Cheng, Nora Elghazzawi, Maya Prasad
October 29, 2020
Online
Oblong Books: FORESHADOW Digital Tour Stop
7:00 pm EDT: What Doesn’t Kill You
a craft and storytelling conversation with Nova Ren Suma, and New Voices Tanya Aydelott, Tanvi Berwah, and Gina Chen
October 24-25, 2020
Online
The Center for Fiction: YA Writing Bootcamp
2:00 pm EDT on both days: “Lining Up the Bones of a Y.A. Story”
October 22, 2020
Online
Doylestown Bookshop: FORESHADOW Digital Tour Stop
7:00 pm EDT: Stakes & Tipping Points
a craft and storytelling conversation with Nova Ren Suma, and New Voices Mayra Cuevas and Flor Salcedo
October 20, 2020
Online
McNally Jackson: FORESHADOW Digital Tour Stop
7:00 pm EDT: The Place We Call Home
a craft and storytelling conversation with Nova Ren Suma, and New Voices Desiree S. Evans, Adriana Marachlian, and Joanna Truman
MAY 27, 2020
Online
AAPI Book Month
7:00 pm EDT: Mental Health in Asian Stories (with Hanna Alkaf, I.W. Gregorio, and Farah Rishi)
MAY 27, 2020
Online
School Library Journal Day of Dialog – Virtual Event
11:20 am EDT: In conversation with Nova Ren Suma & Nina LaCour
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Baltimore, MD
ALAN Workshop
8:30 am: Walden Award event in Ballroom I & II
3:20 pm: Building Powerful Females panel in Ballroom I & II
NOVEMBER 23, 2019
Baltimore, MD
NCTE Annual Convention
2:45 pm: Dangers of a Single Story panel (Room 316)
4:30 pm: Signing at LBYR (Booth #1231)
SEPTEMBER 5-8, 2019
Singapore
Asian Festival of Children’s Content
Thursday, 12:00 pm: Advocating for Diverse Books (Possibility Room, L5)
Friday, 11:30 am: Debut YA Authors (Imagination Room, L5)
Saturday, 4:00 pm: Dealing with Trauma in Books (Programme Zone, B1)
JULY 29, 2019
New York, NY
Symphony Space
Thalia Kids’ Book Club Camp
JUNE 22-25, 2019
Washington, D.C.
ALA Annual Conference
Saturday, 2:30 pm: Signing at LBYR (Booth #1137)
Saturday, 6:00 pm: APALA Award Ceremony
Sunday, 8:45 am: YALSA Coffee Klatch
JUNE 8, 2019
Bronx, NY
Bronx Book Festival
2:00 pm: Mapping Mental Health (Fordham Plaza)
2:50 pm: Signing
MAY 18, 2019
Chatham, NJ
#nErDCampNJ
MAY 2, 2019
New York, NY
Books of Wonder (18 W. 18th St.)
5:30 pm: Love From A to Z tour stop
in conversation with S.K. Ali and S.A. Chakraborty
APRIL 14, 2019
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Times Book Festival
10:30 am: Connections and Consequences (with Lizzy Mason and Matt Mendez; moderated by Sharon Levin)
in the Seeley G Mudd Auditorium (Room 123)
APRIL 12, 2019
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony
APRIL 6, 2019
New York, NY
Kweli: The Color of Children’s Literature Conference
1:00 pm: Mining Deep: Research, Writing & Discovery (with Karyn Parsons, T.R. Simon; moderated by Namrata Tripathi)
MARCH 30, 2019
Arlington, VA
NoVa TEEN Book Festival
MARCH 29, 2019
Washington, D.C.
Walter Awards Symposium and Ceremony
9:00 am: Symposium: A Conversation with Walter Honorees
10:30 am: 2019 Walter Awards Ceremony
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
Houston, TX
ALAN Workshop
9:20 am: In conversation with Nova Ren Suma about FORESHADOW (Convention Center, Grand Ballroom C)
9:45 am: Signing (Convention Center, Grand Ballroom C)
NOVEMBER 15-18, 2018
Houston, TX
NCTE Annual Convention
Saturday, 11:00 am: YA Lit is Complex (Convention Center, 352 DEF)
Saturday, 4:00 pm: Signing (LBYR booth #741)
Sunday, 9:45 am: Signing (ALAN booth #337)
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
New York, NY
Books of Wonder (18 W. 18th St.)
6:00 pm: Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix launch
in conversation with Julie Dao and Tochi Onyebuchi
NOVEMBER 2-3, 2018
Denver, CO
Colorado Teen Book Con
Friday, 7:00 pm: YA Author Happy Hour
Saturday, all day: Colorado Teen Book Con
OCTOBER 28, 2018
Doylestown, PA
Doylestown Books
Author Confessionals
1:00 pm: In Conversation with Nova Ren Suma
OCTOBER 22, 2018
New York, NY
Strand Bookstore
7:00 pm: PEN Out Loud: Writing the Future (with Dhonielle Clayton, Joseph Bruchac, Kheryn Callender; moderated by Ibi Zoboi)
in the Rare Book Room (828 Broadway, 3rd Floor)
OCTOBER 13, 2018
Morristown, NJ
Morristown Book Festival
2:40 pm: Life As We Know It (with Jennifer E. Smith and Ibi Zoboi)
YA LOFT at Presbyterian Church Parish House
OCTOBER 12, 2018
Cambridge, MA
School Library Journal: Day of Dialog
11:10 am: Stellar Teen Reads
SEPTEMBER 16, 2018
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Book Festival
1:00 pm: Life Hurts (with Arvin Ahmadi and Ashley Woodfolk; moderated by Adele Griffin)
at the Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge, 250 Joralemon St
JUNE 30, 2018
Princeton, NJ
Princeton Public Library
Teen Book Bash (with Claire Legrand, Anica Mrose Rissi, Nisha Sharma)
4:30 pm: panel + book signing + after-hours party for teens
JUNE 23, 2018
New Orleans, LA
Octavia Books
5:00 pm: 6 YA Author Panel
JUNE 23, 2018
New Orleans, LA
ALA Annual
7:30 am: YA Breakfast
11:00 am: ALA Pop Top Stage event
3:00 pm: signing at LBYR booth #1631
MAY 17, 2018
Washington, D.C.
Bethesda Library (via Politics and Prose)
7:00 pm: In conversation with Sarah Nicole Lemon
MAY 5, 2018
Santa Monica, CA
YALLWEST Book Festival
11:00 am: Signing
2:00 pm: Singularities (with Ally Condie, Kirsten Hubbard, Hilary Reyl; moderated by John Corey Whaley)
4:00 pm: Fantasy Histories & Historical Fantasies (with Dhonielle Clayton, Richelle Mead, moderated by Melissa de la Cruz)
6:00 pm: Smackdown!
APRIL 28, 2018
Decatur, GA
Little Shop of Stories
7:00 pm: In conversation with Becky Albertalli (Leah on the Offbeat)
moderated by Aisha Saeed (Written in the Stars)
APRIL 22, 2018
Los Angeles, CA
LA Times Festival of Books
11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Young Adult Fiction: Nothing Left to Lose
12:00 – 12:45 pm: Signing
3:30 – 4:30 pm: Young Adult Fiction: Culture & Belonging
4:30 – 5:30 pm: Signing
APRIL 21, 2018
Irving, TX
North Texas Teen Book Festival
10:00 – 10:30 am: New Kids on the Block
12:00 – 12:30 pm: I’ll Be Missing You
1:30 – 2:00 pm: I Put a Spell on You
3:30 – 5:00 pm: Signing
APRIL 17, 2018
Cupertino, CA
Apple Campus
12:00 pm: Pranayama, meditation, and book talk
APRIL 15, 2018
Menlo Park, CA
Kepler’s Books
2:00 pm: In conversation with Kelly Loy Gilbert
& Anna-Marie McLemore
moderated by Stacey Lee
APRIL 7, 2018
Wellesley, MA
Wellesley Books
7:00 pm: In conversation with Julie Dao
APRIL 6, 2018
Boston, MA
The Muse and the Marketplace Conference
3:45 – 5:00 pm: Find the Skeleton of Your Story: Using Structure to Gain Propulsion craft session
APRIL 5, 2018
New York, NY
NYU Creative Writing Program Reading Series
7:00 pm: Alumni Fiction Reading at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
MARCH 26, 2018
New York, NY
Books of Wonder
6:00 pm: In conversation with Buzzfeed’s Farrah Penn
MARCH 25, 2018
New York, NY
Books of Wonder (18th Street)
NYC Teen Author Festival
2:30 pm: Mega Signing
MARCH 24, 2018
New York, NY
42nd Street NYPL (Bartos Forum)
NYC Teen Author Festival
2:30 pm: Writing the Perils of Real Life
MARCH 23, 2018
New York, NY
Barnes & Noble (Upper West Side)
NYC Teen Author Festival
7:00 pm: Reader’s Theater & Signing
MARCH 20, 2018
New York, NY
McNally Jackson: Official Launch of The Astonishing Color of After
7:00 pm: In conversation with Nova Ren Suma
FEBRUARY 17, 2018
New York, NY
NYPL Chatham Square Library
1:00 pm: Seven Asian American Authors You Should Be Reading
(in conversation with Stacey Lee, Rhoda Belleza, Sona Charaipotra, Jenny Han, Heidi Heilig, Karuna Riazi; moderated by Yin Chang)
JANUARY 24, 2018
Memphis, TN
ABA Winter Institute
2:20 – 3:20 pm: The Indies Introduce Authors and Booksellers Present
NOVEMBER 10 – 11, 2017
Charleston, SC
YALLFest
Saturday, 10:00 – 11:00 am: Signing ARCs at the Little, Brown table
NOVEMBER 4 – 5, 2017
Louisville, KY
YALSA’s 2017 Young Adult Services Symposium
Saturday, 5:00 pm: Book Blitz
Sunday, 8:30 – 10:00 am: Identity in YA: Representing All Teens through Library Programming
MAY 18, 2017
New York, NY
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
7:00 pm: Sheba Karim’s Launch Party & YA Panel
FEBRUARY 8-11, 2017
Washington, D.C.
AWP Conference
Friday, 3:00–4:15 pm: So You’re a Writer Looking For a Publishing Day Job
Saturday, 4:30–5:45 pm: The Book of Your Heart: Ignoring Market Trends and Writing the Novel Most Connected to You
