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Signed contract with UVA Press for an edited nonfiction collection, Come and Eat: An Anthology of Food for the Dispossessed, August 2025
“Rochester Roots” reading, hosted by Writers & Books at the Little Theatre, Rochester, NY, June 2024, featuring Michael Dumanis, Rachel Galvin, Ilya Kaminsky, Sejal Shah, and Erica Cavanagh.
Brighton High School reading & conversation, Rochester, NY, June 2024, featuring Michael Dumanis, Sejal Shah, and Erica Cavanagh.
Virginia Festival of the Book, conversation about Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World, live at the Jefferson-Madison Central Library, Charlottesville, VA, March 2024, featuring Paul Bogard, Leah Naomi Green, and Erica Cavanagh.
WMRA’s Books & Brews Conversation about Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World, live at Pale Fire Brewing Company, Harrisonburg, VA, April 2023, featuring Paul Bogard, Lauren K. Alleyne, and Erica Cavanagh. Recording available on YouTube.
“What the Living Do,” published in Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World. (UVA Press, February 2023).
“Food is Family.” Interview on public radio’s With Good Reason re-cut and re-aired. November 2022.
Prairie Lights Virtual Reading for the Letter to a Stranger anthology. Facilitated by editor Colleen Kinder andfeaturing authors Lia Purpura, Lucas Mann, Maggie Shipstead, Rachel Yoder, and Erica Cavanagh. April 2022.
“To the Inescapable Teacher” re-published in Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us. (Algonquin, March 2022.)
“Food is Family.” Interview on public radio’s With Good Reason. December 2021.
James Madison University Creative Writing Program Reading Series, aired and recorded via Zoom, November 2020
Oasis “Stories on Two Feet” Reading Series, recorded via Zoom, August 2020
Awarded a Creative Inspiration Grant from the Arts Council of the Valley, Spring 2020
“The Photographs in the House: How Two Images Opened a Hidden World,” a talk on my current book project, University of Virginia, Brown College, October 2019
“The Photographs in the House: How Two Images Opened a Hidden World,” James Madison University, October 2019
“The Great War in Stereo: Documentary Photography on the Western Front,” curated show from inherited WWI slides, James Madison University, September-November 2019
Awarded the 2016 Martha Martin Fellowship from the Millay Colony for the Arts, June 2017
Charlottesville Reading Series, Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, Charlottesville, VA, January 2017
“Empathy, the environment and culture converge at reading series” by Raennah Lorne, C’ville, January 2017.
“The Telephone Show,” an exhibition of literary and visual arts, Larkin Arts, Harrisonburg, VA, December 2016
“2006 Editor’s Prize Winner in Nonfiction: Erica Cavanagh.” Interview by Traci Cox, the Missouri Review’s Soundbooth Podcast. October 2016.
One-month artist residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, June 2016
“Creating Opportunities: Growing the Local Food Movement,” JMUse Series on Food, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, April 2016
“An unforgettable journey: Professor volunteered in West African village for two years” by Julia Nelson for The Breeze. January 2016.
“Stories & Storytellers” Series, The Artful Dodger, Harrisonburg, VA, December 2015
“The Menu: A Reading & Discussion of Our Life with Food,” JMuse Café, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, November 2015
Faculty Reading Series, James Madison University, October 2015
“Poets, Photographers, and Poet-Photographers (Part Two): Erica Cavanagh” by Karen Risch-Mott for The Fight and the Fiddle. March 2015.