Upcoming Events

Thurs., Mar 26, 2026, 4:00 - 6:00 pm, Guest Reader in celebration of Women’s History Month, Monthly Community Dinner at Aqus Cafe, Petaluma. Sharing the stage with poet Anna Citrino and novelists Elaine Rock and Pamela Reitman. Register here.

Tues, Apr 14, 2026, Featured Author, Writer’s Night Out, Macs at 19 Broadway, Fairfax, CA. www.writersnightout.com

Tues, Apr 23, 2026, 6 pm, Girl in a Box Launch, speaking with Dr. Judy Halebsky, Director of MFA program, Edgehill Mansion, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA. Register here.

Sat., Apr 25, 2026, 1 pm, California Writers Club of Marin Local Author Book Fair, Book Passage, Corte Madera.

Fri., May 8, 2026, 3 pm, Guest Host, Haiku in the Garden, Marin Art & Garden Center, Ross, CA.

Sun., May 17, 2026, 2 pm, Girl in a Box Second Launch and Celebration of Japanese Women’s Arts including exhibit of onna-de style calligraphy of Akiko’s poems, live demonstration by 8th-Dan Calligraphy Expert Goyo Morimoto and shamisen nagauta musical performance by Junko Nakauchi. Books Inc., Pruneyard (Campbell, CA). Register here.

Sat., May 30, 2026, Yosano Akiko and Poetry in Translation, with Nancy Hamilton and Professor Noboru Ota, Sakai Plaza of Rikyu and Akiko, Sakai Japan.

Sat., June 27, 2026, 1 pm, Out-of-the-Box Research: Pro-Tips for Writers; with author Jonelle Patrick, Mill Valley Public Library. Register here.

Sat., August 1, 2026, 1 - 2:30 pm, Researching Historical Fiction in Foreign Settings, a workshop with Linda Joy Myers, Belvedere-Tiburon Public Library.

Past Events

Sat., Mar 14, 2026, Panelist, Writing Forward from the Past, Books at the Source: Literary Arts Summit, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA.

Haiku in the Garden, Marin Art and Garden Center, August 9, 2024. Haiku and tanka workshop led by Jayne McPherson and Jean Gordon Kocienda.

Tighten Your Writing with a Poetry Game, Mill Valley Public Library, June and December 2023.