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Events

Upcoming

December: Books available at the St. Anne's Hill Christmas tour gift shop

 

November 15, Cozy Book Nook, Dayton

 

September 21, Author Symposium, Dayton Metro Library

 

 

 

Past

 

2024

 

August 29, Bouchercon panel, Nashville

 

June 13, Arts Bazaar at 2nd Street Market, Dayton

 

May 23, launch party for The Corpse in the Trash Room, Gem City Catfe, Dayton

 

May 18, Trash & Treasure, Dayton

 

April 12-13, Regal House 10th Anniversary celebration, Raleigh, NC 

 

2023

 

June 23, interviewed by Betty Bolté (about Too Early to Know Who's Winning)

 

June 8, Reading at the Moonlit Cello - Music & Literature Series hosted by Radio Habana, San Francisco

 

June 3, Reading at the Hamfest, San Francisco

 

Interviewed by Maggie Smith on the WFWA podcast Hear Us Roar! (about In Search of the Magic Theater)

 

April 1 at 4:30, book event at The Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL

 

March 31, Keynote address at the annual Czech/Slovak Studies Workshop, University of Illinois

 

Interviewed by Karen E. Osborne (about Too Early to Know Who's Winning)

 

Another interview with Clifford Garstang! about Too Early to Know Who's Winning

 

March 9, 8-author reading at Optimism Brewery, Seattle

 

January 23, Rosewood Gallery book group, Kettering, Ohio 

 

2022

 

December: Books available at the St. Anne's Hill Christmas tour gift shop

 

November 2021: paper "Toyen's Queer Surrealism," in panel Queer Approaches, at SECAC

 

October 8: Author event at the San Francisco Public Library, Bernal Heights branch

 

September 17: book signing at Joseph-Beth bookstore, Cincinnati, 11:00 a.m.

 

August 25: Interview with me on Joy E. Held's Books By My Friends

 

August 18: the Bookable Space podcast, with host Yvonne Battle-Felton, reading from and talking about In Search of the Magic Theater

 

July 22: Interview on Betty Bolté's blog

 

June 27: Interviewed by Christina Consolino

 

June 25: book signing at Crepe Bohème, Second Street Market, Dayton, Ohio

 

June 18: book signing with authors Erin Flanagan, Valerie Nieman, and Jess Montgomery at the Barnes & Noble in Beavercreek, Ohio (Dayton area)

 

June 11: participated in Bookish Road Trip's Second Annual Book Tasting (video here)

 

June 10 at 7:00: talk on Toyen at the Dayton Society of Artists, High Street Gallery

 

June 7: Interviewed by Sarahlyn Bruck

 

June 5 at 2:00: book launch party for In Search of the Magic Theater at Ghostlight in Dayton, Ohio

 

June 1: Interviewed by Clifford Garstang about In Search of the Magic Theater

 

May 11, 2022: Zoom discussion of Toyen and gender and sexuality, online, sponsored by Společnost pro queer paměť with Czech Fulbright and CRAACE (Continuity/Rupture: Art and Architecture in Central Europe 1918-1939); watch on YouTube

 

February 2022: talk on Prague surrealism during the Nazi occupation, at the CAA conference

 

2021

 

 

Interview with John Raimo at New Books Network (listen!)

 

November 2021: "Toyen and Myth" in panel on Toyen at the ISSS conference

 

October 27, 2021, online launch hosted by the International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS). Not currently on YouTube but maybe at some point.

 

September 17, 2021, "Not Just Toyen: How Should We Envision First-Republic Women and Gender?" Keynote Address at the Czechoslovak Studies Group Conference "Reimagining the Heart of Europe," online hosted by University of Oxford, UK

 

August 8, 2021: San Francisco Public Library

 

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(watch via YouTube)

 

August 5, 2021: "Toyen and Czech Surrealism," the Czech Center, New York

 

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(watch via YouTube)