Events August 17, 2026 | New York, NY Wine & Pine Reading Series at Ten Degrees September 22, 2026 | Queens, NY Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event at Astoria Bookshop October 27, 2026 | Queens, NY “Story Time” for Parents and Caregivers at Astoria Bookshop If you’d like Crystal to join you for an event or book club discussion, please email crystalhanakim.author (at) gmail.com. Thank you. PREVIOUS EVENTS April 17, 2026 | San Bernardino, CA LTI Korea x Korean Cultural Center’s Korean Literature Across Borders November 13-14, 2025 | Roanoke, VA Hollins University October 19, 2025 | Manhattan, NY Sunday Salon Reading Series September 17-19, 2025 | O’ahu, HI University of Hawai’i at Mānoa September 8, 2025 | Brooklyn, NY Franklin Park Reading Series June 4, 2025 | New York, NY Freya Project Reading Series May 15, 2025 | Pleasantville, NY Mount Pleasant Public Library Book Club May 3, 2025 | Montclair, NJ Montclair Literary Festival April 18-20, 2025 | Columbia, MO Unbound Festival of Books April 15, 2025 | Brooklyn, NY Liz’s Book Bar Group Paperback Launch with Clare Beams, Xochitl Gonzalez, and Lisa Ko March 28-29, 2025 | New Orleans, LA New Orleans Book Festival March 19, 2025 | VIRTUAL Book Club Snug March 15-16, 2025 | Tucson, AZ Tucson Festival of Books March 6, 2025 | New York, NY The Strand For Jinwoo Chong’s launch of I Leave it Up To You March 4, 2025 | VIRTUAL StoryStudio PJ Seminar: On the Art of the Opening February 11, 2025 | VIRTUAL Author’s Guild Webinar: On Mentorship February 4, 2025 | New York, NY P&T Knitwear For Rachel Lyon’s paperback launch of Fruit of the Dead January 22, 2025 | VIRTUAL Columbia College Women Author Series in conversation with Hannah Lillith Assadi Register Here January 3-8, 2025 | Lynchburg, VA Randolph MFA November 24, 2024 | Miami, FL Miami Book Fair On Safety and Survival with Elysha Chang, Nazli Koca, and Samuel Kolawale November 19, 2024 | Brooklyn, NY Edward R Murrow High School x SpeakEasy Author Talkback with Kyle Lucia Wu October 30, 2024 | New York, NY Words Without Borders Gala October 19, 2024 | Harrison, NY Harrison Library’s Meet The Authors Event September 30, 2024 | Brooklyn, NY #YeahYouWrite Reading Series x Brooklyn Book Festival Someday Bar September 25, 2024 | New York, NY Multi Media Reading & Conversation, with Dance Interpretation by Ballet Hispanico and Kweli Journal Akwaaba Mansion, 347 MacDonough St, Brooklyn, NY 11233 September 24, 2024 | Manhattan, NY Les Bleus Literary Salon September 14, 2024 | Virtual Kweli International Literary Festival Master Class: Creating Momentum Through Destabilization September 7, 2024 at 5pm | Chicago, IL Printer’s Row Lit Fest The Stone Home, in conversation with Rebecca Makkai August 27, 2024 | Virtual Blue Stoop Office Hours with Jessamine Chan August 13-24, 2024 | Middlebury, Vermont Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference July 10-14, 2024 | Southampton, NY Southampton Writers Conference June 29, 2024 | Charlottesville, VA New Dominion Bookshop at 7pm in conversation with Rebecca Taylor June 27-28, 2024 | Lynchburg, VA Guest Speaker at Randolph College MFA June 8, 2024 | Bronx, NY Bronx Book Festival May 16, 2024 | Brooklyn NY Pete’s Reading Series at 7:30pm ET May 7, 2024 | Brooklyn, NY Tables of Contents x Insa at 7pm April 30, 2024 | New York, NY NYPL Chatham Square branch at 5:30pm World Literature Festival panel on History, Legacy, and Friendship with Lisa Ko April 26, 2024 | Washington, DC Politics and Prose (Wharf) at 7pm Joint event with Clare Beams, author of The Garden April 21, 2024 | Los Angeles, CA LA Times Festival of Books Broccoli Theatre at 3:30pm Looking Back to See Forward: Contemporary Historical Fiction April 18, 2024 | Brooklyn, NY The Freya Project, raising funds for Indigenous Women Rising The New York Dock Building April 17, 2024 | New York, NY NYU Silver Center at 6:30pm in conversation with Dr. Alan Schlechter and Dr. Eric Whitney April 11, 2024 | Chicago, IL Women and Children First at 7pm in conversation with Julia Fine April 9, 2024 | Manhattan, NY The Korea Society with Yu & Me Books at 6:30pm in conversation with Susan Choi April 4, 2024 | Brooklyn, NY Books Are Magic (Montague) with AAWW at 7pm in conversation with Julia Phillips March 27, 2024 | Online at 7pm ET #MarginsBookselling private bookseller event with R.O. Kwon