Events & Appearances: 2012
| DATE | EVENT | LOCATION |
| February 9, 2012 | STORY HOUR with VIKRAM CHANDRA | University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA |
| February 10, 2012 | Reading at Mrs. Dalloway’s in Berkeley | Please come join me for a reading from THE LADY MATADOR'S HOTEL! 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 |
| March 7, 2012 | Reading at University of North Carolina-Wilmington | Wilmington, North Carolina |
| March 13, 2012 | Reading at William Paterson University | Fiction Reading at 3:30 pm Open to the public! Wayne, New Jersey |
| April 14 - 15, 2012 | GetLit! Festival | Readings Spokane, WA |
| May 16 - 19, 2012 | National Latino Writers’ Conference | Readings and workshops Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| June 3 - 9, 2012 | Las Dos Brujas Writers’ Workshop | Readings, craft talks, workshops with Chris Abani, Denise Chavez, Martin Espada, Kimiko Hahn, myself, and others. Ghost Ranch, New Mexico |
| June 14 - 17, 2012 | Chautauqua Writers’ Festival | Workshops and reading Chautauqua Institution, New York |
| July 21 - 28, 2012 | The Norman Mailer Center | Workshop Provincetown, MA |
