October 8, 2026, 5:30pm – Bent Cedar Mountain Official Book Launch, Carnegie Center, Lexington, KY
October 24, 2026, 10a-5p – Kentucky Women’s Book Festival @ Louisville Book Festival, International Convention Center, Louisville, KY
November 7, 2026, 9a-5p – Kentucky Book Festival, Joseph-Beth Books, Lexington, KY
November 9, 2026, 6pm – Multifarious Poetry Open Mic (featured reader), Blue Stallion Brewing Company, Lexington, KY
November 29, 2026, 1p-3p – Grown Up Book Fair, Blue Stallion Tap Room, Richmond, KY
– Recent Events –
October 5, 2026 – Paul Sawyier Public Library (reading), Frankfort, KY
August 30, 2026 – Appalachian Literary Arts Festival – Author Fair (signing), Coffee Tree Books, Morehead, KY
July 25, 2026 – Berea Arts Council (reading), Berea, KY
July 6, 2026 – Disquiet International (reading), Lisbon, Portugal
March 21, 2026 – Virginia Festival of the Book (table) @ Old Metropolitan Hall (101 E Main St), Charlottesville, VA
March 20, 2026 – Appalachian Studies Association Conference (presentation) @ Marshall University, Huntington, WV
January, 2026 – Writer-in-Residence (w R Dean Johnson) @ Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts, Fairhope, AL
January 15, 2026 – Reading and Reception, 5:30pm to 7:30pm (w R Dean Johnson) @ Fairhope Public Library, Fairhope, AL
November 1, 2025 – Signing, 9:00am to 3:00pm @ KENTUCKY BOOK FESTIVAL, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Lexington, KY
November 7, 2025 – Front Porch Talk w Todd King, 6:00pm @ EKU BOOK CLUB, Crabbe Library, Richmond, KY
November 15, 2025 – Panel/Signing, 10:00am to 4:00pm @ BOOKS BY THE BANKS, Cincinnati, OH
November 26, 2025 – Reading/Signing, 12:00pm @ OLD TOWN BOOKS, San Angelo, TX
October 25, 2025 – West Virginia Book Festival @ Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center, Charleston, WV
July 28, 2025
LAST MONDAY READING SERIES (w Wendy Jett), 8:00p @ The Kentucky Native Cafe, Lexington, KY
June 19, 2025
READING & SIGNING, 7:00p-9:00p @ Eagle Eye Book Shop – Decatur, GA
June 14, 2025
KENTUCKY BOOK FESTIVAL, LOUISVILLE EDITION, 10:00a – 5:00p @ 720 Brent St. – Paristown/Louisville, KY
June 5, 2025
FIVE OAKS LAUNCH PARTY (w musical guest, Domenico Scarambone), 7:30p @ Dreaming Creek Brewery – Richmond, KY [Books available through The Taleless Dog Booksellers]
May 28, 2025
FIVE OAKS BOOK RELEASE , 7:00pm @ Joseph-Beth Booksellers – Lexington, KY
April 16, 2025
AUTHOR’S SHOWCASE
1:00p-2:00p @ Eastern Kentucky University, Grand Reading Room in Crabbe Library -Richmond, KY
April 3-5, 2025
FEATURED AUTHOR @ Scissortail Creative Writing Festival – Ada, OK
March 28, 2025
PANELIST “You’re So Money & You Don’t Even Know It: Funding Your Creative Writing” AWP Conference & Bookfair , Los Angeles, CA
October 19, 2024
PRESENTER
Louisville Book Festival Louisville, KY
July 10, 2024
DISQUIET INTERNATIONAL LITERARY PROGRAM, Lisbon, Portugal
October 8, 2022 KENTUCKY STATE POETRY SOCIETY CONFERENCE, Bowling Green, KY
October 20, 2022 Featured Author, BEREA ARTS COUNCIL OPEN MIC, Berea, KY
September 24, 2022 Book Signing, MADISON BOOK FEST, Richmond, KY.
June 28, 2022 Reading, DISQUIET INTERNATIONAL LITERARY PROGRAM, Lisbon, Portugal
March 5, 2020 Panelist: “Small wonder: How small presses and their authors promote their work,” AWP20, San Antonio, TX.
October 4-6, 2019 Reading & Craft Lecture, KSPS ANNUAL MEETING and POETRY FESTIVAL , Carnegie Center in Lexington, KY
September 20-21, 2019 Book Signing, HEARTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL, Elizabethtown, KY
July 30, 2019 Writer-in-Residence, ARTISTS THRIVE SUMMIT, Berea, KY (through August 2).
