May is a really timely confluence of “awareness months” for This is My Brain in Love, being both Mental Health Month and Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Starting tomorrow, I’m collaborating with some amazing authors at the Asian Author Alliance on a series of events. First off – an Instagram Live on Thursday, May 7th with the incomparable Stacey Lee (award-winning author of The Downstairs Girl and Outrun the Moon).
Also this month, you can catch me virtually during the following events:
- Thursday, May 14th at 4pm ET- Rock the Boat’s On the Same Boat series: Managing Burnout Through Creativity
- Friday, May 15th at 7pm ET – Isn’t it Romantic panel with Tif Marcelo, S.K. Ali and Farah Heron (produced by Asian Authors Alliance and livestreamed on YouTube)
- Sunday, May 17th at 2pm ET – Writing the Complexity of the Asian American Experience panel with Traci Chee, Lori Lee and Deeba Zargarpur (produced by Asian Authors Alliance and livestreamed on YouTube & the Books Inc. Facebook page)
- Tuesday, May 19th at 7pm ET – Politics & Prose (Crowdcast) – YA panel with Adib Khorram (Darius the Great is Not Okay) and Ashley Woodfolk (The Beauty That Remains)
- Saturday, May 23rd at 9pm ET – PubTalk Live with Sarah Nicholas and special guest Ellen Oh
- Monday, May 25th at 6pm PT / 9pm ET – Panel at Changing Hands Bookstore with Stacey Lee and Nicola & David Yoon (livestreamed on Facebook Live)
- Wednesday, May 27th at 7pm ET – Mental Health + AAHM panel at Main Point Books with Emily X.R. Pan, Farah Naz Rishi and Hanna Alkaf (produced by Asian Authors Alliance and co-streamed on YouTube & the Main Point Books Facebook page)
- Wednesday, June 21st at 8-8:30pm on Instagram Live – Let’s Talk Writing! with Kelly Yang