Read + Write: 30 Days of Poetry, Cuyahoga County Public Library, April 30, 2024
Panel participant. Debuting as a "senior" writer: Why are there never "50 over 50" features?, AWP March 8, 2023
First Wednesday Reader Series with Toni Thayer @tkthayer, hosted by Lit Youngstown, October 5, 2022
Reading with Driftwood Press (off-site) at AWP, March 5, 2021
Interview by James McNulty, editor of Driftwood, to accompany my short story, January 2021
Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Literature (Fiction, FY2020)
Workshop teaching: Applying to Writing Residencies (with Laura Maylene Walter) Lit Cleveland. September 17, 2019
Carve Magazine Raymond Carver fiction contest 2019, semi-finalist (also a semi-finalist in 2016)
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, fiction resident April 2019
Author talk with Sam Ligon, Happy Dog, Cleveland, October 6, 2016.
CWRU School of Medicine Story Slam, judge and invited reader, October 7, 2015.
Ragdale Artists’ Community residency in fiction February 2016
Vermont Studio Center Residency in Fiction November 2014
“Inspection, Palpation, Percussion and Auscultation: Cardinal techniques for a physician and writer.” Discussion and fiction reading. Program in Medical Humanities, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, November 4, 2014.
Creative Workforce Fellowship, Community Partnership for Arts & Culture (Cuyahoga county), Cleveland, OH (2013/2014 cycle)
“Good Deaths” Cleveland Talks: To Our Health (storytelling) at Bottlehouse Tavern, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, February 10, 2013.
“Witness and Response: Physician-Writers/Health/Illness/Justice.” Panel presentation of creative writing with Jay Baruch, Wynne Morrison, and Allan Peterkin. American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, October 23, 2010.
First Mondays Reading series (poetry) with Sarah Gridley, Jessica McGuiness, Megan Norr, and Margo Chervony. The Alcazar, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, February 7, 2010.
