2021-2023

2020

• 2020 Cagibi 2020 Print Issue Celebration, Online

• Ditmas Lit Reading Series, Hinterlands Bar, Brooklyn, NY, Feb 19, 8 p.m.
• Queens Central Library, Featured Reader, Queens, NY, Feb 9th 2-4 p.m.

 

 

2019

• Poor Mouth Poetry, An Beal Bocht, Bronx, NY, Oct 9th, 8:30 p.m.
• Berfrois and QMT Book Launch, Stella & Fly, 1705 1st Ave, May 15, 8-11 p.m.
• Risk of Discovery Reading Series, at Blue Chips, 38-04 61st, Queens, NY, May 21, 7 p.m.
• Spoonbill Studio presents Poetry 99, 99 Montrose Ave. Brooklyn, NY, Feb 11, 7 pm

 

 

2018

• Razor Blade Readings, December 16, 3-6 p.m. Tannat Wine and Cheese, 4736 Broadway/Thayer
• Book Launch: Who Will Speak for America? Edited by Stephanie Feldman & Nathaniel Popkin — Featuring Readings by KC Trommer, Sam J. Miller, Nancy Hightower, & Herman Beavers, Powerhouse Arena, Thursday, September 27, 7-9 p.m., Brooklyn, NY
• Who Will Speak for America? Launch Party, Tuesday, June 26th, 7-10 p.m. at L’Etage, Philadelphia, PA
• A Reading at Transmitter: Barlow/Hightower/Valente, Thursday, June 28, 7-9 pm, Brooklyn, NY
• The Strand Bookstore, Poet a Day/Microresidency Project, April 4th, 1-3 pm
• “Female pleasure and Societal Shame: Recovering from Trauma” The Pleasure Panel, New Women Space, 188 Woodpoint Rd, April 5th, 7-9 pm
• “Writing the Hybrid Essay,” (workshop), Spring Writer’s Conference, William Paterson University, April 14th
• “Monster Cultures,” with Sofia Samatar, Carmen Machado, Kelly Link, and Theodora Goss, AWP, March 10,
• “A Reading by Women of Speculative Fiction,” AWP, March 2018
• Linebreak Reading Series, Queens, March 3, 2018

2017

• “Of Saints and Monsters” (curator): Featuring: Britt Canty, Jessie Chaffee, Swati Khurana and Rosamond S. King, St. Peters’ Chelsea, Oct 25, 7 pm.
• “Digital Storytelling as Resistance,” Society for Comparative Literature and Art, Johns Hopkins University, October 20
• Lyrics, Lit, and Liquor, Brooklyn Lit Crawl, October 6th, Black Forest, Brooklyn 7pm
• Guerrilla Lit Reading Series, with Alex Gilvarry and Jessie Chaffee, September 13th
• KGB: Karen Heuler, Nancy Hightower and Matthew Lansburgh, September 17th
• St. Peter’s, Chelsea presents Artists Resist, July 20th
• Line Break Reading Series, Queens Book Festival Edition, Sunday, May 28
• The Rally Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY, April 27
• Writers Read NYC, NY, April 23
• Lit, Lyrics, and Liquor, HiFi Bar, NY, NY, March 14th
• Brew XII: An Evening of Literary Works, The Hungry Ghost, Brooklyn, NY, March 9
• Les Bleus, February 23
• “MFA or Bust?” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Washington D.C, February 2017
• Sundays at Erv’s, Erv’s on Beekman, Brooklyn, NY, January 8th

2016

• Manhattanville Reading Series,  Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY, December 20th,
• Collections of Flaws in a Black Dress Book Launch, Hell Phone, Brooklyn, NY, September
• Big Book of Science Fiction Panel Discussion (w/ Jeff Vandermeer, Ann VanderMeer, Ted Chiang, John Chu, and Halimah Marcus). McNally Jackson Bookstore July 14th
• HIP LIT Hideaway Salon, Brooklyn, NY, May 20th
• Linebreak Reading Series, QED, Astoria, July 2
• Cross Poetry Reading Series, Jersey City, NJ, May 8
• Poetry Reading and Reception, St. Peters Church, Chelsea, NY, May 5
• Queens Lit Crawl/Line break: Aged Restaurant, Forest Hills
• Pete’s Reading Series, Pete’s Candy Story, Brooklyn, NY, Thurs, April 21
• “Women in Spec: Women Writers in Speculative Poetry and Fiction,” Room 505, LA Convention Center, Meeting Room Level. Friday, April 1
• “We Have Always Lived in the Castle,” AWP Conference 2016, Room 506, LA Convention Center, Meeting Room Level. April 2nd
• Denver Bookbar, Denver, CO, March 31
• International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 19
• Hi-Fi Reading series, with Carmen Mechado and Mensah Demary, March 7th
• New Jersey City University Bookstore, Jersey City, NJ, March 3
• Les Bleus Literary Salon, New York, NY February
• Bluestockings Bookstore, New York, NY, January

2013-15

• Bourgeois Pig Cafe, Chicago, IL, 2015
• Miss Spoken Reading Series, Gallery Cabaret, Chicago, IL, 2015
• “Finding True (H)Appiness – “A Dialog Event with Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, Amanda Stern, and Nancy Hightower,” New York, NY 2015
• Hideaway Salon Series, Electric Studios, Brooklyn, NY  2015
• LIC Arts Open, Shangri‐la Gallery, Queens, NY, 2015
• Lit Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY,  2015
• LIT at Lark Reading Series, Lark Café, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
• Phyllis Robertson Program Series, Schultz-Holmes Memorial Library, Blissfield, MI, 2014
• “Reimagining the Fantastic,” CAS WR100, Fairy Tales and Literature. Arts and Sciences Writing Program, Boston University 2014
• Lamprophonic Emerging Writers Series, Symphony Space, New York City, NY, 2014
• Pink Narcissus Press Group Reading, Readercon, Burlington, MA,  2014
• The Authors Corner on Public Radio,  2014
• “Dear Reader, I Reviewed It: VIDA and Women in Book Reviewing,” (panel), Out of the Binders: Symposium on Women Writers Today, Arthur L Carter Journalism Institute, NYU, 2014
• International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL,  2014
• Reading with D.T. Friedman, New York Review of Science Fiction Readings, Soho Gallery  for Digital Art, New York City, NY,  2014
• Hour of the Wolf with Jim Freund, WBAI, New York City, NY, 2014
• “Re-remembering the Fractured Past,” English 474, Writers of Color in American Speculative Fiction, English Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2014
• Electric Velocipede group reading, Bluestocking Books, New York City, NY, February 2014
• “Under the Skin,” Hop Leaf Bar, Chicago, IL, 2013
• Pathways to Publication” (panel), Chicago Book Expo, 2013
• World Science Fiction Convention, San Antonio, TX 2013
• “Transforming Fact into Fiction,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL,  2013
• Here I am lecturing about the grotesque in art at William Patterson University