Appearances 2026
Class Visit, Hackley School, Tarrytown, NY January (Date withheld for privacy)
February 12, 2026
Jewish Women’s Archive Virtual Author Talk Please register here for access live or later.
February 27, 2026 11:30 ET
In Conversation with Sharon Kane about childhoods of famous people.
March 4, 2026
New York Public Library Bloomingdale Branch Class talk
March 11, 2026
School Visit, Baltimore, MD
Register for YA Writers Live
March 11, 2026 4:00
Roland Park Branch Enoch Pratt Libraries, Baltimore
May 29, 2026
Biographers Conference panel on Radical Biographies with Ray Anthony Shepard and Angela Carstensen
June 25, 2026
Shenandoah Children’s Literature Conference
July 11, 2026
Chautauqua Women’s Club, Contemporary Issues Forum Lecture
October 1-3, 2026
ALSC Institute, Buffalo, NY
Recent Appearances:
USBBY in Boston was wonderful. Here is a glimpse into the panel I was on.
On October 18, 2025 I was at the Fountain Bookshop in conversation with Libba Bray! Here are a few photos from that event:
Baltimore Book Festival, September 13, 2025 Panel with Kristina Gaddy at Red Emma’s.
On October 25, 2025 Villanova, PA I presented at the first ever YoFest! I had a great time!
Select Past Appearances:
- One Book, One Batavia, 2023 Vincent and Theo
- Virtual appearances for Clara Lemlich She Persisted
- American Library Association Annual Conferences
- American Library Association Midwinter Conferences
- Streaming Schoolhouse.
- BookFest, Bank Street College of Education Award keynote, panels
- SCBWI New York Metro Professional Series lectures
- Biographers International Conference
- BookExpo America
- New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Conference
- School Library Journal Day of Dialogue Keynote
- Torpedoed Book Tour School Visits in
- Asheville, NC
- Washington, DC
- Philadelphia, PA
- Emmaus, PA
- Chicago, IL
- Recent Bookstores appearances:
- Let’s Play Books Bookstore Emmaus, PA
- Books of Wonder, New York, NY
- Children’s Book World Haverford, PA. Philadelphia
- NYC DOE Library Services Annual Fall Conference
- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and ALAN Conferences talks and panels
- Oswego Writing Institute Keynote Address & breakout sessions
- SCBWI Annual Summer Conferences
- Teaching at Highlights Foundation
- Gaithersburg Book Festival
- SCBWI Golden Kite Galas, New York, NY award acceptances
- Texas School Administrators, Houston, Texas Keynote
- Boston Globe Horn Book Awards and Symposium, Boston, MA
- JCC Author Series, Allentown, PA.
- Humboldt County Author Festival, Humboldt, CA
- ILA conferences
- Teen Author Festival, New York Public Library panel.
- Voices in the Family with Dr. Dan Gottlieb at the Philadelphia Art Museum. Creativity: Life From the Inside Out. Event and WHYY radio
- Intrepid Museum
- Southern Festival of Books
- PEN World Voices Festival
- World Science Festival
- Virginia Festival of the Book
- Los Angeles Festival of Books
- Princeton Book Festival
- Empire State Book Festival
- NYC Teen Author Festival
- Gaithersburg Book Festival
- Festival on Faith and Writing, Calvin College
- National Science Teachers Association
- National SCBWI Conference
- Rutgers One-on-One Plus Conference
- New York State English Teachers Conference
- Children’s Book Guild of Washington, DC
- Pennsylvania School Librarians Conference
- Pennsylvania SCBWI conference
- Shenandoah University Children’s Literature Conference
- IRA Conference
- Association of Jewish Librarians Conference
- Boston College, Conversations with…Author/Illustrator Series
- Appalachian State University, Darwin Bicentennial Series
- 60th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner
- National Geographic Galapagos Cruise (guest lecturer on 10-day cruise to the Galapagos.)
- Eric Carle Museum
- New York Public Library Literary Salon
