Events
TBA Panel Moderator
Bay Area Book Festival, Saturday and Sunday, May 6-7, 2023, Berkeley
Panel Moderator: “Fiction: Everybody’s Got One: Families and Secrets
LA Times Festival of Books: 12:30-1:30 PM Sunday, April 23, 2023, The Ray Stark Family Theater
Presenter, National Book Critics Circle Awards for Publishing Year 2022
6:30 PM Thursday, March 23, 2023
The New School Auditorium, 66 West 12th St, New York, NY 10003
Panel Moderator: “Fiction: Things Are Not What They Seem” (Panel 1022)
LA Times Festival of Books: 12:00-1:00 PM Saturday, April 23, 2022, Town and Gown
Natashia Deón in conversation with Heather Scott Partington
Prairie Lights Bookstore, February 2022
Alta Magazine, June 9, 2021
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Sara Borjas
Alta Magazine, July 29, 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Ishmael Reed
Alta Magazine, July 22, 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Mary Melton
Alta Magazine, July 15, 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Alex Espinoza
Alta Magazine, July 8, 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with David L. Ulin
Alta Magazine, July 1, 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Katie M. Flynn
Alta Magazine, June 24, 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Tod Goldberg
June 17, 2020
The Hot Seat: How to Be Interviewed (Lecture)
UC Riverside Palm Desert MFA Residency, June 11, 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Rishi Reddi
Alta Magazine, June 10, 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Edan Lepucki
Alta Magazine, June 16, 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Matthew Zapruder
Alta Magazine, May 27, 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Peter Orner
Alta Magazine, May 20, 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Kimi Eisele
Alta Magazine, May 13, 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Luis J. Rodriguez
Alta Magazine, May 6, 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Susan Straight
Alta Magazine, April 29, 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Ander Monson
Alta Magazine, April 22, 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Tess Taylor
Alta Magazine, April 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Vanessa Hua
Alta Magazine, April 2020
Alta Asks Live: In Conversation with Bonnie Tsui
Alta Magazine, March 2020
Secrets of the Book Critic (Lecture)
UC Riverside Palm Desert MFA Residency, December 10, 2019

Panel moderator: “Books: What It Means to Be a Reader” (Conversation 2072)
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 14
Write Critical Essays That Don’t Suck (Lecture)
UC Riverside Palm Desert MFA Residency, December 14, 2018

In Conversation with Tod Goldberg, author of Gangster Nation
Diesel Bookstore, Oakland, October 5, 2017

Panel moderator: “Fiction: Finding a New Normal” (Conversation 2043)
LA Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, April 10, 2016
Time Management & Literary Criticism (Lecture)
UC Riverside Palm Desert MFA Residency, December 7, 2015
“Fiction: History on the Page” (Conversation 1123)
LA Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, April 18, 2015

Under the Gum Tree Second Anniversary Reading
Bows & Arrows, Sacramento, November 15, 2013
Media
Social Media Manager
Elk Grove Homeless Assistance Resource Team, 2019

Guest | Winter ’19 Episode 02
KCOD Open Book Podcast with Maggie Downs and Tod Goldberg, January 2019
Guest | Summer ’18 Episode 02
KCOD Open Book Podcast with Maggie Downs and Tod Goldberg, July 2018
Contributor to the Online Committee for the National Book Critics Circle, and Critical Mass, the NBCC Blog, 2017-2018
Guest | Teaching Camus’ The Stranger
Literary Disco Podcast, May 2014