Author reading and chapbook launch of “Growing Pains and Bird Feeder.” At the Bewegungsraum Wedding, Berlin. 22 May 2022.
Participant: Association of Writing Programs Conference, AWP 2022, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2022.
Resident at “Museum of Loss and Renewal” Summer 2021 Individual Residency Program Taking Time/Prendendo Tempo, Molise, Italy.
Panel Member: “400 Miles” on Place in Texas: Association of Writing Programs Conference AWP 2020, San Antonio, Texas, March 2020. Read essay: “Homeland”
Presentation: “Female Veteran Memoirs: Reclaiming Our Narratives and Ourselves”
Bridges and Borders Conference, April 2021
Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University
Bettina has performed her stories live at The Moth Pittsburgh (2017), Smutslam Berlin where she won third place November 2020
Member of Poets and Writers