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COMING UP
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PAST EVENTS​
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Sept. 21, 2024 @ 4:00pm CT
Story Circle Network Virtual Conference: "Carving Out Time and Space for Writing" with Irena Smith
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Aug. 22, 2024 @ 7:00pm ET
Raising Your Bright Child: From Birth Through College with Alina Adams and Irena Smith (Virtual)
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March 21, 2024 @ 6:30pm ET
UJA Federation of New York, New York, NY, with Alina Adams
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Oct. 21, 2023
Lit Crawl, San Francisco, CA
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Jan. 26, 2023, 7:00pm
Green Apple Books, San Francisco (in person)
With Alina Adams
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Jan. 17, 2023, 7:30pm ET
Greenlight Bookstore, New York (virtual)
With Alina Adams
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Nov. 12, 2022
One County, One Book by The Ventura County Library Foundation with Mayukh Sen
Camarillo, CA
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Oct. 22, 2022
Lit Crawl San Francisco: With Maggie Levantovskaya, Tatyana Sundeyeva, Vlada Teper, Sasha Vasilyuk & Olga Zilberbourg
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Oct. 20, 2022
Paperback book launch at Books Inc., Campbell CA
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July 21, 2022 @ 7:30pm ET
Ukraine Fundraiser and Book Talk at Edlavitch DCJCC, Washington, DC
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July 20, 2022 @ 7:00pm ET
Alliance Française de Washington, DC, with Bonjour Books and Russia Online Bookstore
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July 18, 2022 @ 12pm ET
Pozez JCC of Northern Virginia, Fairfax, VA
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July 16, 2022 @ 2:30pm ET
Gathering Volumes, Perrysburg, OH
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Sat, May 14, 2022 @ 2pm PT
The Avid Reader Bookstore, Sacramento
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Sun, May 8, 2022 @ 1pm PT
Bay Area Book Festival, Berkeley
"The Ruptures of Leaving: Women Writers on Migration" with Gabriela Garcia, Shugri Said Salh & Susie Meserve
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Wed, April 13, 2022 @ 6pm PT
Save Ukrainian Lives: Emergency Medical Relief Fundraiser for United Hatzalah, Menlo Park, CA
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Thur, April 7, 2022 @ 4pm PT/7pm ET
Alliance Française Washington, DC (online)
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Sat, March 26, 2022 @ 1pm PT/4pm ET
"Soviet-American Authors Talk Russia-Ukraine War: How To Write History While You're Living It"
With Alina Adams, Olga Zilberbourg and Yelena Furman. Hosted by History Through Fiction (recording here)
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Jan. 25, 2022 @ 6pm PT
Alameda Free Library (online)
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Jan. 20, 2022 @ 7pm PT
Jewish Family & Children's Services, SF Bay Area (online, recording here)
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Dec. 15, 2021 @ 6pm ET
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA (online)
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Dec. 8, 2021 @ 7pm PM
Mountain View Public Library, Mountain View, CA (online)
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Dec. 4, 2021 @ 4pm PT
Folio Books, San Francisco, CA. "Born in the USSR, Raised in California": 7 writers read their work (recording here)
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Mindful Return webinar, Washington, DC (online, recording here)
Nov. 15, 2021 @ 7pm ET
Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington, DC with Lara Vapnyar (online, recording here)
Nov. 12, 2021 @ 6pm ET
The Writer's Center, Washington, DC (online, recording here)
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Nov. 11, 2021 @ 7pm PT