Photo taken after a Zoom launch reading for The Plague Papers, a special e-anthology guest edited by Robbi Nester. Background image from an NPR piece about penguins visiting a museum during the pandemic, which served as inspiration for "Field Day"

Cati Porter has been a featured reader UCR Writers Week, Skylight Books, Beyond Baroque, Loma Linda University, Sacramento Poetry Center, & many more.

She's been a recent guest speaker on publishing for Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop & Woodbury University's Page and Stage Conference,

She's also led workshop for children at Foothill Country Day School in Claremont, CA and various schools in the Riverside Unified School District.

And she's developed and presented instructional materials for adults teaching poetry for young people through Riverside County Office of Education.

She is available for conferences, workshops, and events. Contact her here.