Friends at the Unbound Book Festival!

The best part of the already amazing Unbound Book Festival? Seeing old friends and making new ones! I didn’t take many photos but here’s John Gallaher and Jenny Molberg in the hotel lobby special chair…and me, Amina Gautier and Gary Jackson sharing our homeward travels, talking writing, teaching, comic books, Michael Jordan, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, and more!

The Thing with Feathers panel at the Unbound Book Festival 2025!

Unbound Book Festival! You were amazing! What a great time I had presenting on my second panel, The Thing with Feathers…about boids! *flap-flap warble-warble* Hosted at the Serendipity Salon. Then doing a book signing at Skylark Bookshop .

Pictured: panelist Lindsey Drager, panelist Noppadol Paothong, moderator Dana Ripper, and panelist me!

Bitter Beans panel at the Unbound Book Festival 2025!

Unbound Book Festival! I want to hold you in my heart! What a wonderful time I had presenting on the Bitter Beans panel about coffee, including reading my poem “Coffee Suite” commissioned for the panel!

Moderator: Jessica Vaughn Martin

Panelists: Mark Pendergrast, Heather Webber, and me!