The Pinhook- reading w/ Body Heat- The Femme Porn Tour April 2011, Durham NC
The Regulator Bookshop- Reading from Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation Nov 2010, Durham NC
Modern Times Bookstore- Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation book launch 2010, SAN FRANCISCO
Femmecon 2010 Glitterati: An Evening of Fierce Femme Sparkling Entertainment
Writers With Drinks: The Make Out Room: SAN FRANCISCO
Cafe Royal: June 2008, SAN FRANCISCO
Radar Reading: Main Library, April 2008, San Francisco
Femina Potens: K'vetsh open mic, OCTOBER 2007, SAN FRANCISCO
Perverts Put Out: SAN FRANCISCO
THREE DOLLAR BILL CAFE: QUEER OPEN MIC, SAN FRANCISCO
Femme2006: Conversations and Explorations Saturday Evening Cabaret, San Francisco
Bumbershoot 2004: Starbucks Literary Stage: Tribute to the victims of the green river killer
The Seattle Poetry Slam! CD: Featured Artist
Word of Mouth Reading Series CD: Featured Artist
Waging Peace: Artistic Intention in a State of War, Featured Reader September 2002
Seattle Poetry Festival: Featured Performer 2002
Seattle Poetry Festival: Panelist Poetics of Identity 2002
Chowderhead Productions DVD Project: Featured Performer 2001
Member of Where Your Mouth Is: Featured performance poetry group Seattle Poetry Festival 2001
Member of the Seattle National Poetry Slam Team: 2000
Bumberslam participant: 2000
Member of Slip of the Tongue: Featured performance poetry group Seattle Poetry Festival 2000
1999 Eleventh Hour Productions - The Rapture: Featured reader with Isangmahal Arts Collective and Piece of Sol
Host of the Homeland Open Mic Series
Guest Host for the Seattle Poetry Slam
Host for the Seattle Dyke March 2001 - 2003

Numerous featured readings in Seattle including:
The Richard Hugo House
The Lesbian Resource Center
The Seattle Poetry Slam
The University of Washington Poetry Games
Word of Mouth reading series

Education

Visiting artist: Z e u m M a s t e r s, San Francisco
Teaching poet: Eleventh Hour Productions Emerging Voice Poetry in the School program, Seattle

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