SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Online
The Pixel Project: Read for Pixels
8:30 pm ET: Live Reading and Q&A
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NOVEMBER 17-26, 2023
Singapore
Singapore Writers Festival
TK: Event info to come
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Past Events:
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MAY 20, 2023
Online
Gotham Children’s Book Conference
12:15 pm ET: Mythology in Children’s Literature
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FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Brooklyn, NY
Books Are Magic: She is a Haunting Launch
7:00 pm: Celebrating Trang Thanh Tran’s debut novel
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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)
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NOVEMBER 4, 2022
New York, NY
Yu and Me Books: Unwieldy Creatures Launch
5:30 pm: Celebrating Addie Tsai’s latest novel
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OCTOBER 9, 2022
New York, NY
New York Comic Con
3:00 pm ET: Building on the Bones: Retold and Reimagined (1C03)
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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APRIL 12, 2022
Online
Politics & Prose: Launch event for An Arrow to the Moon
6:30 pm ET: in conversation with author Sabaa Tahir
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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
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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
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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”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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”
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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
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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
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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)
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MAY 27, 2020
Online
School Library Journal Day of Dialog – Virtual Event
11:20 am EDT: In conversation with Nova Ren Suma & Nina LaCour
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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
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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)
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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)
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JULY 29, 2019
New York, NY
Symphony Space
Thalia Kids’ Book Club Camp
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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
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JUNE 8, 2019
Bronx, NY
Bronx Book Festival
2:00 pm: Mapping Mental Health (Fordham Plaza)
2:50 pm: Signing
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MAY 18, 2019
Chatham, NJ
#nErDCampNJ
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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
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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)
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APRIL 12, 2019
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony
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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)
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MARCH 30, 2019
Arlington, VA
NoVa TEEN Book Festival
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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OCTOBER 28, 2018
Doylestown, PA
Doylestown Books
Author Confessionals
1:00 pm: In Conversation with Nova Ren Suma
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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)
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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
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OCTOBER 12, 2018
Cambridge, MA
School Library Journal: Day of Dialog
11:10 am: Stellar Teen Reads
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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
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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
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JUNE 23, 2018
New Orleans, LA
Octavia Books
5:00 pm: 6 YA Author Panel
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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
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MAY 17, 2018
Washington, D.C.
Bethesda Library (via Politics and Prose)
7:00 pm: In conversation with Sarah Nicole Lemon
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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!
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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)
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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
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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
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APRIL 17, 2018
Cupertino, CA
Apple Campus
12:00 pm: Pranayama, meditation, and book talk
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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
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APRIL 7, 2018
Wellesley, MA
Wellesley Books
7:00 pm: In conversation with Julie Dao
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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
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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
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MARCH 26, 2018
New York, NY
Books of Wonder
6:00 pm: In conversation with Buzzfeed’s Farrah Penn
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MARCH 25, 2018
New York, NY
Books of Wonder (18th Street)
NYC Teen Author Festival
2:30 pm: Mega Signing
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MARCH 24, 2018
New York, NY
42nd Street NYPL (Bartos Forum)
NYC Teen Author Festival
2:30 pm: Writing the Perils of Real Life
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MARCH 23, 2018
New York, NY
Barnes & Noble (Upper West Side)
NYC Teen Author Festival
7:00 pm: Reader’s Theater & Signing
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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
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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)
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JANUARY 24, 2018
Memphis, TN
ABA Winter Institute
2:20 – 3:20 pm: The Indies Introduce Authors and Booksellers Present
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NOVEMBER 10 – 11, 2017
Charleston, SC
YALLFest
Saturday, 10:00 – 11:00 am: Signing ARCs at the Little, Brown table
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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
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MAY 18, 2017
New York, NY
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
7:00 pm: Sheba Karim’s Launch Party & YA Panel
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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
