Events

Recent and Upcoming Events (event timing local to city unless otherwise noted)

• The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human (reading) World’s Borough Bookshop, Jackson Heights, NYC, An official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends event, Thur. Sept. 26, 2024, 7pm
• Queens Poets on Revolution (recorded online reading) An official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends event, Tues. Sept. 24, 2024, 7pm ET
• Reader at the Ripped Bodice, Brooklyn, NYC, Fri. Sept. 6, 2024, 7:30pm
• Reader at Ridgewood Library, Queens, NYC, Thu. Sept. 5, 2024, 6:30pm
• In conversation with Nupu Press, Ananke Women’s Literature Festival, April 23, 2024

Past Events

• Reader for Solidarity Reading  & Art Auction for Palestine, AAWW, NYC, Fri. Dec. 1, 2023, 6:30pm
• Hosting the History of Queens in 7 Dishes, Lewis Latimer House Museum, NYC, Sat. Oct. 14, 2023, 2-4pm
• Queens Poets on Revelation (online poetry event) A Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends event, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, 7pm ET
• Reader for the Bookworm Author Series with Nupu Press, Bookworm, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sat. July 22, 2023, 3:30pm
• Residencies and Retreats, an online AAWW and AG panel, Mon. April 3, 2023, 1pm ET
• Chaitali Sen presents A New Race of Men from Heaven with Abeer Hoque, P&T Knitwear, NYC, Sat. Jan. 21, 2022, 7pm
• Speaker at 2023 Dhaka Lit Festival, Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 5-8, 2023

• Reader at Experiments and Disorders, Dixon Place, NYC, December 6, 2022, 7:30pm
• Speaker at the 2022 Singapore Writers Festival, November 5-6, 2022
• Queens Poets on Recollection (online poetry event) A Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends event, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, 7pm ET
• “Love in the Time of Composting” (romcom short film), Everything Change, Taliesin Arts Center, Friday, June 17, 2022, 2pm ET
• Facilitator for 2022 Memoir Workshop Public Reading, Lewis Latimer House, Flushing, NYC, Sat. June 4, 2022, 2:30pm
• Reader for I KNOW WHAT’S BEST FOR YOU (book launch) A Novel Idea, Philadelphia, Thursday, May 26, 2022, 6pm

• In Conversation with Nadifa Mohamed (online interview) Jaipur Lit Fest New York 2021, Wed. Oct. 20, 2021, 3pm ET
• Queens Poets on Ritual, (online poetry event) A Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends event, Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, 7pm ET
• Final Class Reading of a Queens Memoir Workshop, hosted by Latimer House, Saturday, May 1, 2021, 2-4:30pm
• Speaker at Asian American Plural, APIA Studies, William & Mary College, Thurs. April 15, 2021, 9:30am-10:50am ET
• Reader at the Red Door Series (poetry) St. Marks Church, Jackson Heights, NY, Wed. March 17, 2021, 6:30-7pm
• “The Straight Path” (online table read of TV pilot) Saturday, March 13, 2021, 3-5pm ET
• “Future Visions by Queens Writers” (online reading) Maple Grove Reading Series, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021, 5:30pm ET

• “A Reckoning” (online poetry panel) A Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends Event, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, 7pm ET
• LIC Resort’s Poolside Publishing Chat, (online) Friday, July 17, 2020, 1:30pm ET
• “Stories of Failure” (online video interview) Inked Studios, June 2020
• Poet for the ENTER project by the Onassis Foundation, curated by the Queens Museum, Monday, May 18, 2020
• Reader for the Digital Edition of the Miss Manhattan Nonfiction Reading Series (online) Monday, May 4, 2020, 7:30pm ET
• Storyteller on 80 Minutes around the World, Caveat NYC, Saturday, February 8, 2020, 4pm

• Panelist at a Literary Soiree, Jatra Biroti, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, December 30, 2019, 5pm
• Featured reader for Multiverse Reading Series, Buuuni Coffee, Washington Heights, NYC, Thursday, November 7, 2019, 7pm
• Featured Reader at First Tuesdays Reading Series, Espresso 77, Jackson Heights, Queens, Tuesday October, 1, 2019, 7pm
• Queensbound Reader for the 2019 BackLot Literary Festival, Mar’s Astoria, Saturday, September 21, 2019, 3:15pm
• Reader for the Future of Desi Lit, a BkBF Bookends event, AAWW NYC, Friday, September 20, 2019, 7pm
• Reader for Jackson Heights Writers, a BkBF Bookends event, Queens Library at JH, Thursday, September 19, 2019, 6pm
• Storyteller at the 2019 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, St. Andrews, Scotland, June 30-July 20, 2019
• Reader for Immigrant Heritage Month, NYPL Parkchester, the Bronx, NYC, Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 4:30pm
• Featured Reader at The Rally, Pete’s Candy Store, Williamsburg, NYC, Thursday, May 2, 2019, 7pm
• Olive Witch featured in Adult Battle of the Books, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Friday, April 5, 2019, 6pm
• “The Passage” Poetry Reading, Queens Pride House, Jackson Heights, NYC, Saturday, February 16, 2019, 2pm
• Valentine Show by Emotive Fruition, Caveat, NYC, Tuesday, February 12, 2019, 7pm
• Reader for This Alien Nation, Joe’s Pub, NYC, Wednesday, January 9, 2019, 7pm

• Reader for Queensbound, 1st car on the 7 train at Vernon-Jackson, Saturday, November 3, 2018, 2-4pm
• Reader at Queens Writers Resist, Diversity Plaza, Jackson Heights, Queens, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018, 4-6pm
• Author Spotlight Reader for NAMI Pennsylvania, City of Asylum Bookstore, Pittsburgh, Wednesday, July 25, 2018, 7pm
• Reader at Miss Manhattan On The Rocks, The Scratcher, NYC, Saturday, April 21, 2017, 6pm
• Guest host for This Alien Nation, Joe’s Pub, NYC, Wednesday, May 9, 2018, 7pm
• Reader for Friends of Maple Grove Literary Sundays reading series, Kew Gardens, NYC, Sunday, April 8, 2018, 1pm (see photos!)
• Reader for This Must Be The Place reading series, Dear Mama Coffee, UES, NYC, Monday, April 9, 2018, 6pm
• Critical Walk-Through at the American Folk Art Museum, Queens, NYC, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. (see photos!)
• Speaker at the Zee Jaipur Literary Festival, India, January 24-29, 2018 (read my roundup!)
  • “Poetry Hour,” Zee Jaipur Literary Festival, India, Saturday, January 27, 2018, 5:15pm
  • “Women Writing Memoir,” Zee Jaipur Literary Festival, India, Sunday, January 28, 2018, 5:15pm
  • “The Afropolitans,” Zee Jaipur Literary Festival, India, Monday, January 29, 2018, 2:30pm
• Speaker at Wonder of Words, JECRC University, Jaipur, India, Thursday, January 24, 2018, 2pm (video clips here and here)
• Speaker at the Apeejay Literary Festival, St. Paul’s Cathedral Lawns (Future Tent), Kolkata, India, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018, 1pm
• Spotlight speaker at the 2018 Saarang Festival at IIT Madras, Chennai, India, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018, 11am

• Reader at LIC Reading Series, LIC Bar, Queens, NY, Tuesday, December 12, 2017, 8pm
• Reader at Miss Manhattan Nonfiction Reading Series, Niagara, NYC, Monday, December 4, 2017, 7:45pm
• Reader at The Sunday Salon, Von Bar, NYC, Sunday, November 19, 2017, 7pm
• Reader at Women of Letters, City Winery, New York City, October 19, 2017, 8pm
• Reader at Diwali Fest Writers Panel, The Woodland, Maplewood, NJ, Sunday, October 22, 2017, 3pm
• Reader at Catherine’s East Village Salon, NYC, October 6, 2017, 7pm
• Reader for Queens Writers Resist, Terraza 7, Queens, NY, September 27, 2017, 7pm
• Dispatches from the Ministry of Truth, 61 Local, Brooklyn, Thursday, June 8, 2017, 7-10pm
• The Lantern, Chapter 2, HiFi Bar, NYC, Wednesday, June 7, 2017, 7:30-9pm
• Women of Letters, Boston Book Festival, Cambridge, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 7:30pm
• PEN World Voices Festival: Literary Quest, Westbeth Edition, NYC, Thursday, May 4, 2017, 6:30pm-10pm
• The Freya Project: April 2017, Ramona Bar, Brooklyn, NYC, Thursday, April 27, 2017, 7:30pm
• Book Launch for Olive Witch, Penn Bookstore, Philadelphia, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 6pm
• Women’s Month Reading, New York City, Sunday, March 26, 2017, 4:30pm-6pm
• Shadinota Bangladeshi Women’s Liberation, New York City, Sunday, March 26, 2017, 9:30am-6pm
• Author event at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Oakland Branch, Wednesday, March 22, 2017, 6:30pm
• Book Launch for Olive Witch, City Books, Pittsburgh, Saturday, March 18, 2017, 7:30pm
• Book Launch for Olive Witch, Skylight Books, Los Angeles, Wednesday, March 15, 2017, 7:30pm
• Book Launch for Olive Witch, Verbatim Books, San Diego, Tuesday, March 14, 2017, 7:30pm
• Book Launch for Olive Witch, The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, Friday, March 10, 2017, 7pm
• Author event, The Octopus Literary Salon, Oakland, CA, Friday, March 3, 2017, 2pm
• Book Launch for Olive Witch, Book Passage, SF Ferry Building, Tuesday, February 28, 2017, 7pm
• Book Launch for Olive Witch, Astoria Bookshop, NYC, Friday, February 24, 2017, 7pm
• Manhattan Launch for Olive Witch, AAWW, NYC, Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 7pm
• Panelist on Transnational Hybrid Memoirs Panel, AWP, Washington, D.C. Saturday, February 11, 2017, 1:30pm
• Reader at the NY Writers Workshop reading series, Red Room at KGB Bar, NYC, Thursday, February 2, 2017, 7pm

• Participant at the 2016 Goa Arts and Literature Festival, Goa, India, Dec. 8-11, 2016
• Reader at Pace University’s Vox magazine launch, Pleasantville, NY, November 30, 2016, 12:30pm
• Reader at NYFA-PEN America reading series at Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, NYC, August 16, 2016, 7:30pm
• Participant at the USF Emerging Writers Conference, San Francisco, USA, April 12-13, 2016. See FB Highlights
• Reader at the Women of Letters program co-presented by Millay Colony, Joe’s Pub, New York City, March 9, 2016, 7pm
• Dhaka Book Launch for Olive Witch: a memoir (HarperCollins India) at EMK Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 7pm
• Speaker at the Zee Jaipur Literary Festival, India, January 21-25, 2016
  • “Sex and the Revolution,” (panel session video), Zee Jaipur Literary Festival, India, January 25, 2016
  • “First Novels,” (panel session video), Zee Jaipur Literary Festival, India, January 25, 2016
• Delhi Book Launch for Olive Witch: a memoir (HarperCollins India) at The Toddy Shop, New Delhi, India, Monday, January 18, 2016 at 6:30pm

• Participant at the 2015 Goa Literary Festival, Goa, India, Dec. 10-13, 2015
• Book Launch for the Lovers and the Leavers (HarperCollins UK) Rich Mix London, UK, December 5, 2015
• Reader for Transitions Bangladesh, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York City, November 19, 2015
• Reader at Adult Contemporary, Creative Time, New York City, October 15, 2015
• Book Party for the Lovers and the Leavers (HarperCollins India) New York City, August 8, 2015
• Reader at Bohubachan Poetry Reading (Livestream by SANM), Jamaica, Queens, NYC, April 26, 2015
• Reading from the Lovers and the Leavers, the New York Public Library, January 12, 2015

• Panelist at 2014 Hay Festival Dhaka, Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 22, 2014
• Book launch of the Lovers and the Leavers (Bengal Lights Books) Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 14, 2014
• Reader at Rumour Occasional House Readings, Unnameable Books, NYC, September 30, 2014
• Reader at Morsels on the Mic, Brooklyn, NYC, September 20, 2014
• Reader at Lit Crawl NYC for PEN America & Guernica, NYC, September 13, 2014
• Panelist for “Novelists and Research” Lecture, New York Public Library, July 17, 2014
• Reading and Slideshow, Huckleberry NYC, April 10, 2014

• Book Party for The Long Way Home, New York City, April 6, 2013
• Reader and Performer at Agore Poetica Cultural Show, Barcelona, Spain, 2006
• Podcast for Writers Block on KQED, November 23, 2005
• Wrote, directed, and starred in the performance of the play “On Losing Faith” at APAture, Fall 2002