We potlucked from the book. Tremendous chef and chili oil genius Althea Potter and I had a conversation followed by Q&A.

As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends events, we’re celebrating and exploring chosen family and communal care.

Join me in this jewel of a city perched on a lake to cap off my book tour of Wisconsin!

Join me on the banks of the Mississippi, in the heart of the Driftless, for a special reading!

I love the city of Milwaukee (as a Portlander, you’ll always have a piece of my heart so long as Dame remains a Buck!) so it’s an honor to get a chance to read there. I hope to see you!

This virtual panel — featuring Crystal Wilkinson (Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts), Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Bite By Bite), and Lola Milholland (Group Living and Other Recipes) will explore how blending genres and centering personal and cultural memory can create new possibilities for writing about food and writing through food towards so much more. Moderated by Kate Lebo (The Book of Difficult Fruit).

Block party in the street! We’ll celebrate the release of my book. Christie Maclean and Dawn Riddle will share artwork! Spoiler Room will mix records and video! Rangoon Bistro will make shwe yin aye! ALSO: Onigiri! Melon! Beer! Water! Wine! Prizes! Prizes! Prizes!

The high desert of Oregon also feels like home. My dad grew up in Lakeview, just north of the Nevada border in Southern Oregon. Lakeview was once home to uranium mining and extraction, which I write about in Group Living and Other Recipes. I’m so glad to be reading in Sisters, in a motion towards his home, and sharing this book on the east of the Cascades.

So much of my book takes place in Port Townsend, so I am overjoyed to have a reading there. My uncle Doug, who has a large role in the book, will read one of his poems, as well. The book will come to life! Please join us.

I can’t think of anyone I’d rather discuss the themes of communalism and care with more than Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor. Plus, we’ll throw in some juicy basketball talk!

Launching my book, Group Living and Other Recipes, at Powell’s City of Books is such a dream come true. Please come out to celebrate with me! I’ll be joined in conversation by my dear friend Margarett Waterbury, author of Scotch: A Complete Introduction to Scotland’s Whiskies and editor-in-chief of Distiller. We’re going to live it up—with you!

If you’re already headed to Pickathon, please come by the Windmill Stage on Sunday from 10-12. I’ll join a really incredible lineup of authors reading from their recent or upcoming works!