Upcoming events
2023
March 17-20th: I'm speaking on a panel at the Michigan Reading Association's Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, MI.
Feb-March, date to be determined: I'll be speaking on a virtual panel for nErD Camp PA about Sports in YA Literature/the Role of Sports in Teens' Lives.
2022
Nov 8th, 2022 12-1pm: I'm presenting a NASW-MI Lunch and Learn webinar on Creative Writing for Social Workers. From journaling to narrative medicine to poetry therapy, creative writing and storytelling promotes growth and healing. This workshop provides an opportunity for social workers and other helping professionals to learn about the craft of writing and how it can be utilized in practice and in reflective self-care.
Dec. 3rd, 2022: I'm teaching at the Get Inked! Teen Writing Conference at Saint Mary's College/Notre Dame.
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Past events have included presentations and workshops at libraries, middle and high schools, bookstores, book festivals, book clubs, and writing conferences, such as the ALAN/NCTE Annual Conference, The National Writing Project, SCBWI-MI Conferences and Shop Talks, Michigan Reading Association Annual Conference and Summer Literacy Conference, Red Clay Writers Conference, Rochester Writers Conference, Kerrytown Bookfest, Chicago Young Adult Book Festival, Get Inked! Teen Writing Conference, Heartland Fall Forum, and more.
Listen to The Write Time podcast from the National Writing Project to learn more about the collaboration of poetry in Rhyme & Rhythm: Poems for Student Athletes.
Thank you to the many blogs that celebrated my book launch, interviewed me, or invited me to write a guest post over the years! Here are a few:
Writer's Digest, Tea Talk, Wandering Educators, Nerdy Book Club, Literary Rambles, What/Why/How, Women on Writing, The Art of Research, Best Teen Books about Sports and So Much More, Goodreads, We Are Wildness
2023
March 17-20th: I'm speaking on a panel at the Michigan Reading Association's Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, MI.
Feb-March, date to be determined: I'll be speaking on a virtual panel for nErD Camp PA about Sports in YA Literature/the Role of Sports in Teens' Lives.
2022
Nov 8th, 2022 12-1pm: I'm presenting a NASW-MI Lunch and Learn webinar on Creative Writing for Social Workers. From journaling to narrative medicine to poetry therapy, creative writing and storytelling promotes growth and healing. This workshop provides an opportunity for social workers and other helping professionals to learn about the craft of writing and how it can be utilized in practice and in reflective self-care.
Dec. 3rd, 2022: I'm teaching at the Get Inked! Teen Writing Conference at Saint Mary's College/Notre Dame.
***
Past events have included presentations and workshops at libraries, middle and high schools, bookstores, book festivals, book clubs, and writing conferences, such as the ALAN/NCTE Annual Conference, The National Writing Project, SCBWI-MI Conferences and Shop Talks, Michigan Reading Association Annual Conference and Summer Literacy Conference, Red Clay Writers Conference, Rochester Writers Conference, Kerrytown Bookfest, Chicago Young Adult Book Festival, Get Inked! Teen Writing Conference, Heartland Fall Forum, and more.
Listen to The Write Time podcast from the National Writing Project to learn more about the collaboration of poetry in Rhyme & Rhythm: Poems for Student Athletes.
Thank you to the many blogs that celebrated my book launch, interviewed me, or invited me to write a guest post over the years! Here are a few:
Writer's Digest, Tea Talk, Wandering Educators, Nerdy Book Club, Literary Rambles, What/Why/How, Women on Writing, The Art of Research, Best Teen Books about Sports and So Much More, Goodreads, We Are Wildness