October 19, 2019
Safe Harbors Lobby at the Ritz | Newburgh, NY
Newburgh Literary Festival
November 14, 2019
Books Are Magic | Brooklyn, NY
Red Ink Series
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Completed Events
May 30, 2018 | Book Expo America | New York, NY
Library Journal’s Day of Dialog, Sophisticated Reads Panel
June 1, 2018 | Book Expo America | New York, NY
If You Leave Me book signing
July 20 – 21, 2018
Poets House and New York Times Conference Center| New York, NY
Kweli International Literary Festival reading and panel
July 27, 2018 at 6:30pm
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House | New York, NY
Catapult’s Don’t Write Alone Weekend Retreat (for retreat members only)
August 8, 2018 at 7pm
POWERHOUSE Arena | Brooklyn, NY
If You Leave Me book launch (in conversation with Emily Nemens)
August 10, 2018 at 7pm
Women & Children First | Chicago, IL
in conversation with Julia Fine
Register here or here
August 13, 2018 at 6:30pm
New York Public Library | New York, NY
Mid-Sentence: Writers in Conversation series with Alexander Chee
August 14, 2018 at 7pm
Politics & Prose (Wharf) | Washington, D.C.
Reading and discussion with Caoilinn Hughes
August 23, 2018 at 7pm
Elizabeth Street Garden | New York, NY
Reading for Immigration. All proceeds from this event support RAICES Texas along with Elizabeth Street Garden’s legal defense fund.
August 29, 2018 at 6pm
The Book Passage | San Francisco, CA
Reading with R.O Kwon, Vanessa Hua, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, and Lillian Li
August 30, 2018 at 6:30pm
The Ruby | San Francisco, CA
Roads To and Through Publication: A Roundtable Discussion
September 7, 2018 at 7:30pm
Spoken Interludes | Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Reading with Nathan Englander and Adam Gopnik
Spoken Interludes | Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Reading with Nathan Englander and Adam Gopnik
September 8-9, 2018
BookMarks Festival | Winston-Salem, NC
September 10, 2018 at 7pm
The Half King | New York, NY
If You Leave Me reading
September 13, 2018 at 6:30pm
The Book Stall | Winnetka, IL
The Book Stall | Winnetka, IL
September 16, 2018
Brooklyn Book Festival | Brooklyn, NY
Forbidden Love panel at 4pm with Melissa Broder and Brontez Purnell, moderated by Jaime Green
September 20, 2018 at 7pm
Asian American Writers’ Workshop | New York, NY
Reading with Lucy Tan and Vanessa Hua
September 21, 2018 at 7pm
New Dominion Book Shop | Charlottesville, VA
Charlottesville Reading Series with poet Kyle Dargan
September 22, 2018
WriterHouse | Charlottesville, VA
WriterHouse class on Plot. Stakes. Tension
September 28, 2018
St. Paul’s Elkins Park | Elkins Park, PA
Author Cabaret hosted by Open Book Bookstore
September 30, 2018 at 7pm
National Sawdust | Brooklyn, NY
The Gate with Chris Jackson, Emily Nemens and Paola Prestini
October 13, 2018
Harrisburg Book Festival | Harrisburg, PA
Portraits Of Home reading and discussion with Lucy Tan
October 22, 2018 at 6pm
Barnard Center for Research on Women | New York, NY
Literary Salon: History, Memory, Craft with Zinzi Clemmons
October 23, 2018 at 6pm
Penn Book Center sponsored by Blue Stoop | Philadelphia, PA
in conversation with Sara Nović
October 27-29, 2018
Texas Book Festival | Austin, TX
Turning Obstacles into Autonomy: Freedom in Fiction
November 12, 2018
Yoon Restaurant | New York, NY
The Food of “If You Leave Me” with Author Crystal Hana Kim
November 30, 2018
Columbia University | New York, NY
Korean-American Women’s Voices at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
December 18, 2018 at 7pm
Pacific Standard | Brooklyn, NY
Naughty and Ice: A holiday party hosted by The Rumpus and Pigeon Pages NYC
December 20, 2018 at 7:30pm
Pete’s Candy Store | Brooklyn, NY
Kundiman at Pete’s Reading Series, alongside Tanaïs, Lucy Tan, and Swati Khurana
January 6, 2019
Bowery Poetry Club | New York, NY
Why There Are Words reading series
January 8, 2019
LIC Bar | Queens, NY
LIC Reading Series
January 14, 2019 at 7pm
Red Eye Cafe | Montclair, NJ
Halfway There Reading Series
January 30, 2019
The Wing SoHo | New York, NY
Youth Revolution collaboration with AmorePacific
January 31 – February 2, 2019
University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA
Beyond Borders: An Evening of Immigrant Fiction
February 4, 2019
New York Public Library | New York, NY
Mid-Sentence Series: To Keep The Sun Alive, Rabeah Ghaffari with Crystal Hana Kim
February 19, 2019
UNC Asheville | Asheville, NC
Visiting Writers Series: Crystal Hana Kim
March 16, 2019
Howard County Public Library | Baltimore, MD
A Conversation with Historical Fiction Authors
February 6, 2019
WORD Bookstore | Brooklyn, NY
Willa & Hesper book launch, Amy Feltman in conversation with Crystal Hana Kim
February 28, 2019
Boca West Country Club | Boca Raton, FL
March 2-3, 2019
Tucson Festival of Books | Tucson, AZ
March 28, 2019
AWP Conference & Bookfair | Portland, OR
Debut Authors: Navigating All the Seasons of Book Publication panel
April 13-14, 2019
LA Times Festival of Books | Los Angeles, CA
Set Me Free: Novels of War, Internment, and Enslavement
April 25, 2019
Saugatuck Congregational Church | Westport, CT
Westport Library If You Leave Me reading and discussion
Saugatuck Congregational Church | Westport, CT
Westport Library If You Leave Me reading and discussion
May 21, 2019
Women’s National Book Association | New York, NY
Literary Activism ConversationJune 13, 2019
Egg Restaurant | Brooklyn, NY
Tables of Contents Reading SeriesAugust 31-September 1, 2019
Spencertown Academy Festival of Books | Spencertown, NY
Women’s National Book Association | New York, NY
Literary Activism ConversationJune 13, 2019
Egg Restaurant | Brooklyn, NY
Tables of Contents Reading SeriesAugust 31-September 1, 2019
Spencertown Academy Festival of Books | Spencertown, NY
September 5, 2019
Books Are Magic | Brooklyn, NY
Joint paperback release of If You Leave Me and The Third Hotel with Laura van den Berg
September 9, 2019
Astoria Bookshop | Queens, NY
If You Leave Me paperback event with Jennifer Baker
September 11, 2019
Riverside Park | New York, NY
Summer on the Hudson reading
September 17, 2019
Bo’s Kitchen & Bar Room | New York, NY
#YeahYouWrite Reading Series
October 12, 2019
KOWIN at the Doubletree Hilton | Fort Lee, NJ
Korean American Women Identity Conference
September 17, 2019
Bo’s Kitchen & Bar Room | New York, NY
#YeahYouWrite Reading Series
October 12, 2019
KOWIN at the Doubletree Hilton | Fort Lee, NJ
Korean American Women Identity Conference
Completed Book Club Events
September 26, 2018
Book Wine Club | Brooklyn, NY
October 10, 2018
340 Book Club | Chicago, IL
October 11, 2018
Kenilworth Book Club | Kenilworth, IL
Kenilworth Book Club | Kenilworth, IL
October 25, 2018
The Bookmark Shoppe | Brooklyn, NY
If You Leave Me book club discussion
April 8, 2019
Cosmos Book Club at AAWW | New York, NY
Cosmos Book Club at AAWW | New York, NY