Events

  • May 11 | Lexington, KY | Multifarious Collective: Featured Reader | Blue Stallion Brewing | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

  • May 15 | Kingsport, TN | Kingsport Public Library: Reading & Signing w/Melissa Helton, Sherry Robinson, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Marianne Worthington, Amanda Jo Slone, Amy Lee Ann Richardson, Jane Hicks, Leatha Kendrick, Catherine Pritchard Childress, Pam Steele, Erin Reid, Clay Spencer | 3-6 pm

  • May 23 | Berea, KY | Berea Arts Council Reading | 444 Chestnut St. | TBA

  • May 29-30 | Harrogate, TN | Mountain Heritage Literary Festival

    • “Paths to Publication”

    • “Flash Fiction”

  • June 6 | Louisville, KY | Book signing at Barnes & Noble Plainview | 801 S Hurstbourne Pkwy | 12 – 4 pm

  • June 13 | Lawrenceburg, KY | Book signing at The Kentucky Bookstore | 126 South Main St. | 11 am – 2 pm

  • June 20 | Somerset, KY | Book signing at Books, Nooks, & Crannies w/Bo the cat | 400 E Mt Vernon St. | 12 – 2 pm

  • June 27 | Lexington, KY | Talk w/ Blah, Blah, Blah Writers Group | TBA

  • July 27 | Hindman, KY | Appalachian Writers Workshop | “Write About What Obsesses You” | 1:30 – 2:45 pm

  • Aug. 2 | Lexington, KY | Homegrown Authors Booth at the Lexington Farmers Market w/Artist Erik Rust | 398 Southland Drive | 10 am — 1 pm

  • Aug. 8, aka International Cat Day! | Cincinatti, OH | Barnes & Noble (Kenwood Collection) | Book Signing | 2 pm – 4 pm | 901 E Galbraith Rd Suite 125, Cincinnati, OH

  • Sep. 19 | Lexington, KY | Lexington Writers Room | Community Submissions Event w/Jay McCoy | 1 pm

Upcoming Appearances

In the Rear View

2026

  • Feb. 28 | Nonesuch, KY | Wine, Words & Wild Stories at Wildside Winery: Booksigning | 12 noon – 7 pm

  • Mar. 7 | Lexington, KY | Joseph-Beth Booksellers | Local Authors Spotlight: Book signing | 1 – 3 pm

  • Mar. 20 | Huntington, WV | Appalachian Studies Conference | Marshall University:

    • Fri. Mar. 20 | Panel: “Animal Rescues in Appalachian Literature” w/Em J Parsley, David B. Prather, & Julie Hensley | 9:30 am – 10:45 am

    • Fri. Mar. 20 | Panel: “SELECTED READINGS FROM “Appalachian Men Write the Seasons of Love: Portraits of Vulnerability and Masculinity in Contemporary Appalachia” coeditors Andrea Fekete and Eliot Parker with foreword by Doug Van Gundy | 3 – 4:15 pm

2025

  • Jan 3 | Versailles, KY | Discussion with Woodford Library Book Club about their December book—PINEVILLE TRACE | 9:30 am

  • April 17 | Lexington, KY | Lexington Humane Society – Habicattery Room | Lexington Public Library’s “Check Meowt” Book Club: Discussion about “Pineville Trace” (cat themed book club with adoptable cats!) | 6 pm

  • July 3 | Richmond, KY | Bluegrass Writers Studio Summer Residency | Professional Development Session B: Paths to Publication with Wes Blake @ Powell 201 | 2 – 2:45 pm

  • July 3 | Richmond, KY | Bluegrass Writers Studio Summer Residency | Dreaming Creek Brewery | Featured Alumni Reading | 6 – 7 pm

  • July 10 | Georgetown, KY | Scott County Public Library | In Conversation with David Arnold: How to Write a Book: Authors Share their Experience | 6:30 pm

  • July 12 & 13 | Columbus, OH | Columbus Book Festival:

    • Humanities in a Snapshot: Short Stories Panel w/Bob Johnson, Jared Lemus, & Lena Valencia
      Saturday ● 11:30 am

    • Author Speed Matching
      Saturday ● 4 pm

    • You Can’t Do It Alone: The Writing Community Panel w/Lauren Marie Fleming & Khan Wong
      Sunday ● 1:30 pm

  • Oct. 11 | Indianapolis, IN | Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest | Harrison Center Gym | 1505 N Delaware St. | 10 am – 11:30 am

  • Oct. 19 | Nashville, TN | Southern Festival of Books | Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park | Tennessee State Museum: Duck Room | In Conversation with Robert Inman, followed by signing | 1 pm – 2 pm

  • Nov. 13 | Frankfort, KY | Festival of Books | St. Clair Mall during Frankfort Candlelight Tour | 5 pm – 9 pm

  • Nov. 15 | Cincinnati, OH | Books by the Banks Festival | Main Library of the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library | Literary Fiction Panel w/Esinam Bediako, Issa Fernandez, Katherine Howe, & Lynne Hugo: 1:30 pm in 1SB | Book Signing: 10 am – 4 pm

2024

  • Sat. Sep. 21 & Sun. Sept. 22 | Midway, KY | Midway Fall Festival | With Erik Rust—Book Cover Artist | Sat. 10 am- 10 pm; Sun. 10 am – 5 pm

  • Louisville Book Festival at the Kentucky International Convention Center (KICC)

    • Fri. Oct. 18 | Fiction Panel with Meg Shaffer, Rita Woods, Oindrila Mukherjee, Beth Dotson Brown, & Wes Blake | Write what you know: How to tell the story that speaks to you | L013 | 12 pm (noon)

  • Wed. Oct. 23 | Madison, WI | Mystery To Me Books | In Conversation with Christopher Chambers | 6 pm