Join Kati as she reads alongside her students from the class "Disorienting the Essay" at the University of Arizona Poetry Center's Spring Classes and Workshop Reading.

Join editor Ander Monson, Kati Standefer, and other local contributors as they send Essay Daily's first anthology off into the world.

Join Kati at the University of Arizona MFA Program's yearly Alumni WIP-- an event that honors the poetry and prose Works-in-Progress of badass local alumni. 

Listen to Kati and other contributors read from the essays they contributed to How We Speak To One Another, which explores the essay as conversation, giving context to a genre and deepening the flexibility and vitality of its many forms. 

Join Kati and other contributors to How We Speak To One Another: An Essay Daily Reader at Tucson Festival of Books to discuss the essay as a multifaceted literary genre.  More information forthcoming.

"If you can't talk about something, you can't think about something," writer Eula Biss told Krista Tippett. Join me in late February, as alumni of my classes-- writers of sex, illness, and trauma-- read together for the first time on the patio at Tucson Hop Shop.

Come say hi as I sign copies of the anthology How We Speak To One Another at Coffee House Press's AWP booth!

Join me on Saturday, November 19 for the University of Arizona's FORCE SlutWalk march! I will be delivering the keynote at Cafe Passe at the end of the march, helping to open the SpeakOut portion of the evening. 

SlutWalk is a fight against the prevalent victim-blaming, rape-culture, and street harassment that targets all kinds of people, especially people of color, queer communities, and sex workers. In using the word slut, we are not dehumanizing ourselves, but rather humanizing a label, showing the wide variety people slut pertains to, whether embraced or prescribed to by the outside world.

How have our bodies been silenced--in medical offices, in our private lives, and on the page? And what might it look like to embrace our sexualities wholeheartedly? Join writer, sexologist, and Narrative Medicine professor Kati Standefer for a short reading and interactive conversation about sex positivity and negativity, how she teaches sex writing, and her work training medical students to respond to the stories patients tell about their bodies.

On October 28, join Kati and fellow Tucson writers Francisco Cantu and Ela Harrison as they read from their Best American Essays 2016 contributions at Exo Roast Co.'s Southern Arizona Workspace in downtown Tucson.

Join Kati and Managing Editor of The Iowa Review Lynne Nugent for a celebration of Best American Essays 2016 (ed. Jonathan Franzen) as part of Iowa City's 2016 Festival of the Book. The anthology includes Kati's 2015 Iowa Review Award-winning essay "In Praise of Contempt," and Lynne's work was named Notable.  Kati and Lynne will read at 4pm at the Iowa City Senior Center downtown. 

Join Kati as she reads at The Mill alongside other Examined Life Conference 2016 attendees.

Drawing on the lessons of my ongoing work with community-level writers, I’ll explore how the problems of modern illness become the craft problems of illness narratives, and how I help students break out of these ruts by teaching chronology, scope, framing, and to widen the narrative lens. Together, we'll discuss ways to avoid student re-traumatization, and explore how a supportive community can help writers see past doctors and medical technology to identify the real hero of their illness narratives: themselves.

What keeps us from writing sex? And why is it important to do it anyway? In this three hour Friday evening workshop, we'll unpack the sexual culture we live in, exploring terms like sex positivity and sex negativity, considering the ways we censor ourselves and others, and beginning to pen our own stories of sex and sexuality.

Come have a brew and listen to Kati read from her essay "Animalis: References For a Body, one winter" at Fourth Genre/ Under the Gum Tree's 2016 AWP reading at Bonaventure Brewing in downtown Los Angeles. This reading is open to the public. 

Listen to Kati and other University of Arizona MFA alumni read from their works-in-progress in a restored Sonoran row house.

Wish you were writing, but having trouble structuring it in? BWC is a low-commitment prompt-writing group for twentysomethings intended to provide space for generating new material and sharing creative space. BWCs are ideal for the committed undergrad writer who has trouble getting started without a prompt, the student who couldn't fit a writing class into her schedule but wants to stay creative, or young professionals who want to keep their sentences fresh and meet other writers. It's less important that the writing be amazing and more important that the individual wants to write.  Stop in one Saturday, or every time!