Previous Events
Visiting Lecturer Reading, Harvard University, Advocate, Cambridge, MA, April 11, 2024
Reading, A Dozen Nothing AWP Off-Site, Kansas City, MO, February 9, 2024
Reading, Spiral Editions AWP Off-Site, Kansas City, MO, February 7, 2024
Reading, Barbara’s House, Brooklyn, NY, May 18, 2023
Reading, Cider Gallery, Lawrence, KS, January 20, 2023
Reading, Writers with Drinks, San Francisco, September 10, 2022
Virtual reading, Perfectly Queer, August 17, 2022
Reading, Auction House, NYC, August 8, 2022
Cherng Distinguished Scholar Lecture, ” Toward a Queer Metaphysics of Space Exploration,” University of Missouri Honors College, April 21, 2022
Reading, Bazaar Cafe, SF, February 6, 2022
Lecture, Humanities Symposium, “On Language Boredom,” Vanier College, Montreal, February 2, 2022
Odd Mondays virtual event with Olga Zilberbourg for Folio Books, SF, January 17, 2022
Virtual book club for ONCE UPON A TIME I LIVED ON MARS, Reading Women Leaders in Science, a River Dog Book Co. Production, August 22, 2021.
Virtual conversation with Heino Falcke on the release of his book LIGHT IN DARKNESS, about his role leading the collaboration to take the first picture of a black hole, Green Apple Books, June 25, 2021 (video)
Virtual reading and conversation at the Royal Institute in London, February 18, 2021 (video)
Virtual conversation with poet Anna Leahy and librarian and author Dough Dechow for the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University, Nov 18, 2020 (video)
Virtual reading and conversation, Midtown Reader and the Challenger Learning Center, August 13, 2020
Virtual reading and conversation with HI-SEAS crewmate Sian Proctor, Powell’s Books, July 30, 2020 (video)
Virtual conversation, Rainy Day Books, July 23, 2020
Virtual conversation with Mary Roach, Green Apple Books, July 21, 2020 (video)
Virtual reading and conversation, Literati Bookstore, July 16, 2020
Virtual reading, HERD MUSIC @ Columbia University, July 14, 2020
Reading, Cobra Club, NYC, February 2020
Reading, Red Room, NYC, September 2019
Guest on StarTalk Radio, recorded live at Caveat, NYC, November 2018
Reading, KGB Bar, NYC October 2018
Reading, Dixon Place, NYC, for GUTS, September 2018
Lecture & Discussion, Parlor Tricks of Physics and Palmistry, The Ruby, San Francisco, August 2018
Panelist, “Autonomous ecosystems”, Santa Fe Institute’s InterPlanetary Festival, June 2018
Introduced U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith at Global Poets reading, April 2018
Panelist, Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, University of Kansas, January 2018
Panelist, Santa Fe Institute’s InterPlanetary Project, July 2017
Panelist, New America Foundation discussion “The Race to Mars and Back”, April 2015
Press
Guest on The Naked Scientist, BBC, April 2024
Profiled in the Harvard Crimson, April 2024
Guest on Slate podcast TBD, March 2024
ONCE UPON A TIME I LIVED ON MARS referenced in Nathaniel Rich’s NYT magazine piece on Mars, February 2024
Named a top 10 visionary book about scientists in the Guardian, March 2023
Interviewed by British Astronaut Tim Peake for BBC4 radio doc “Homesick Planet,” March 2023
Guest on Queer Words podcast, February 2023
Guest on NonFicPod, January 2022
Guest on BBC’s The Verb podcast, April 2021
Interview for Air & Space, November 2020
Quoted in the Wellcome Collection series “Homesick for planet Earth,” October 2020
Columbia University School of the Arts coverage, July 2020
Interview with Jacquelyn Marie Gallo for Brooklyn Rail, July 2020
Discussion on solitude with Alicia Evangelista for Swissnex Boston, June 2020
Interview with Marie Arna, literary director at the Library of Congress, May 2020
Interview about Mars and isolation in the time of COVID-19 for Mashable, March 2020
Discussion with Tom Standage about Mars and isolation in the time of COVID-19 for The Economist’s World Ahead podcast, March 2020
Discussion with Mike Pesca about Mars and isolation in the time of COVID-19 for Slate’s The Gist podcast, March 2020
Discussion with Michael Garfield: science journalism, food on Mars, teaching writing in prison, September 2018
BBC Why Factor Programme on boredom, August 2018
“Berkeley: Where Poetry Meets Particle Accelerators,” Poetry Foundation, July 2018
CNET, on colonizing Mars, September 2017
Interview, Santa Fe Reporter on the InterPlanetary Project, July 2017
CBC Radio-Canada, on boredom on Mars, November 2016
Quoted, Hayden’s Ferry Review, on the poem “Pierogies From the Old Country”, March 2016
Interview, NPR podcast Hidden Brain, on boredom, March 2016
Quoted, New Yorker magazine about preparations for a mission to Mars, April 2015
Podcast for Semantica Research discussing Reality Mining: Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World, April 2015
Interview, NPR’s All Things Considered, “For Mars Mission, Sending More Women Might Make Economical Sense,” October 2014
Interview, New Hampshire Public Radio’s Word of Mouth, “Researching What Makes Something Funny & Designing Technology To Deceive”, September 2014
Quoted, “All You Have Eaten: On Keeping a Perfect Record”, Lucky Peach, Spring 2014
Interview, Southern California Public Radio, “The Mysterious and Dangerous Nature of Moon Dust”, November 2013
Interview (w/ HI-SEAS team), “Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You to Death”, the New York Times, July 2013
“A Typical Day in the Life of a Martian Colonist”, Buzzfeed, June 2013
“Kate Greene Wins 2011 Adventure Swim Contest,” Daily News of Open Water Swimming, November 2011
Interview, San Francisco Chronicle, “Maker Faire = DIY Gear Heads + Gadgets”, May 2008