Past Appearances
April 28-29, 2001: Signed Love to Mama at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
September 22, 2001: Read and signed Love to Mama at Fifth Annual African American Book Fair sponsored by Women of Color Enhancing their Minds Book Club.
December 8, 2001: Read and signed Fantasmas at Espresso Mi Cultura Bookstore.
February 21, 2002: Read and signed Fantasmas at Cultura Latina Bookstore.
April 20, 2002: Guest at the Tlacuilo Book Festival, Orange County's first Latino book celebration, at Santa Ana College.
May 4, 2002: Read Love to Mama at Barnes & Noble in the Promenade, Woodland Hills.
March 13, 2003: Panel participant, Latino Poetics (Moderator: Orlando Ricardo Menes), 20th Century American Poetry: Developments and Definitions, sponsored by the American Literature Association (Long Beach Hyatt Regency).
November 1, 2003: Signed Assumption and Other Stories at
B. Dalton's, Canoga Park.
December 13, 2003: Read and signed Assumption and Other Stories at Book Fair sponsored by the San Pedro Regional Branch Library.
January 16, 2004: Guest on Off the Roof (mun2) cable show.
January 22, 2004: Read and signed Assumption and Other Stories with author Rigoberto Gonzalez at Zacatecas Restraurant, Riverside.
June 5, 2004: Read at the Feria del Libro sponsored by the Los Angeles Unified School District.
January 22, 2005: Signed Devil Talk: Stories at Tia Chucha's Cafe Cultural.
June 12, 2005: Guest of Stanford Chicano/Latino Alumni Association Book Club for Devil Talk: Stories.
October 23, 2005: Book reading and signed books at The Latino Book & Family Festival
October 30, 2005: Guest author at Tongue & Groove, a monthly offering of fiction, poetry and music.
November 7, 2005: Guest author at Author's Table in Carmel sponsored by Cal State Monterey Bay and The National Steinbeck Center.
November 21, 2005: Reading at Imix Bookstore.
January 4, 2006: Guest on Word by Word radio show on KRCB hosted by Jordan Rosenfeld.
May 8, 2006: Guest lecturer at Ohio State University.
November 9, 2006: Guest lecturer at San Diego Mesa College.
November 10, 2006: Guest speaker at the Shabbat services of Congregation B'nai Emet of Simi Valley.
February 16, 2007: Guest reader at the Eccentric Moon Poetry Series at Sunland-Tujunga Branch Library.
March 27, 2007: Guest of Prof. John McClain's English class at Imperial Valley Community College.
September 30, 2007: Panel moderator at West Hollywood Book Fair - "To Blog or Not to Blog" with Mark Sarvas, Margo Candela, Kevin Roderick and Adrienne Crew.
February 4, 2008:, Guest on Bibliocracy on KPFK, 90.7 FM, hosted by Andrew Tonkovich and including Reyna Grande and Michael Jaime-Becerra, contributors to Latinos in Lotusland.
May 3, 2008: Latinos in Lotusland group reading at Somewhere Else Coffeehouse and Bookstore.
March 5, 2008: Panelist at Cal State L.A. for Latinos in Lotusland.
May 21, 2008: Latinos in Lotusland group reading at Tattered Cover Book Store.
May 31, 2008: Latinos in Lotusland group reading at Patricia Correia Gallery.
June 13, 2008: Latinos in Lotusland group reading at Vroman's Bookstore.
September 27, 2008: Latinos in Lotusland group reading at the Santa Barbara Book and Author Fair.
September 28, 2008: Latinos in Lotusland group reading at West Hollywood Book Fair.
October 4, 2008: Latinos in Lotusland group reading at Third Annual City Book Fair, San Diego City College.
November 6, 2008: Guest Speaker Series at Santa Monica College for Latinos in Lotusland.
February 14, 2009: Latinos in Lotusland group reading at AWP Conference, Hilton Chicago.
March 28, 2009: Latinos in Lotusland group reading at Libreria Martinez.
May 20, 2009: Latinos in Lotusland group reading at UC Irvine.
October 3, 2009: Latinos in Lotusland group reading at Tia Chucha's Cafe Cultural.
October 10-11, 2009: Guest author at The Latino Book and Family Festival, at Cal State Los Angeles.
