July 26 (my birthday!), afternoon. Reading, Masala! Mehndi! Masti! festival, Toronto.

July 16, 7:00 p.m. Reading. Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego. Free to the public.

June 25, 3-4 p.m. Talk for Athena's, Rhode Island.

June 21, 1-5 p.m., Mini-Kriti Festival. Panel presentations: Publishing Your Novel; Getting the Writing Done. Chicago.

June 14, 10 - 12 a.m. Talk for Ekya, Lincoln Park Library, Chicago. Free to the public.

May 23-28. WisCon. A variety of panel presentations and events. Madison.

May 12. Talk: Writing Your Identity, Northwestern University, Center for the Writing Arts.

April 19, 12 - 1:30 p.m. Reading, McCormick Place. Three S. Asian-American authors come together to offer you tales of love and marriage. Sugi Ganeshananthan will be reading from her first novel, LOVE MARRIAGE, Kali Plomin from her first novel, HOME BEFORE THE MONSOON, and Mary Anne Mohanraj from her collection of Sri Lankan-American stories, BODIES IN MOTION. This event is part of Asian American Studies Conference; registration is required. Lunch is included. http://www.aaastudies.org/2008/index.html

April 18, 7-9 p.m. Reading, Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago (http://www.bookcellarinc.com/. Join us as we celebrate the launch of Sugi Ganeshananthan's first novel, LOVE MARRIAGE, with a reading and Q&A by Sugi, accompanied by brief readings from authors Mary Anne Mohanraj, Ranjit Souri and visiting Laotian poet, Bryan Thao Worra. $5-$10 suggested donation at the door.

April 16, 5:15 - 6:15 p.m., Harris Hall, Rm. 108. Northwestern University's Center for the Writing Arts presents a reading from Bodies in Motion, an exploration of love and sexuality from Sri Lanka and its diaspora, through two families and four generations, and Arbitrary Passions, a combination of travelogue and memoir which attempts to delineate a few of the joys and dangers of arranged marriage, romantic love, polyamory, ethnic identity and nationalism.

April 14, 2008: The CARL BRANDON SOCIETY recommended The Poet's Journey for Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.