EVENTS & PRESS
Events for Tending to Our Wounds
21 July 2026 | 7:00-9:00 pm | London | London Review Bookshop
24 July 2026 | 7:00-9:00 pm | London | Round Table Books
13 August 2026 | 2:00-3:15 pm (EST) | Haymarket Books (Online)
Press for A History of the World in Six Plagues
A History of the World in Six Plague excerpt in RollingStone.
A History of The World in Six Plagues named one of the best books of 2025 by librarians in The Seattle Times.
Listen to Edna on BBC Science Cafe.
Edna is featured on NPR’s Code Switch to discuss pandemics.
Listen to Edna on Kirkus Review podcast discuss A History of the World in Six Plagues.
Tagesspiegel reviews the German translation of A History of the World in Six Plagues.
Der Standard, an Austrian newspaper, interviewed Edna about the German translation of “Eingespertt und ausgegrenzt.”
Listen to a review of the German translation of my book, “Eingesperrt und ausgegrenzt” on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Listen to Edna discuss A History of the World in Six Plagues on Novara FM.
Events for A History of the World in Six Plagues
2 June 2026 | 7:00-9:00 pm | Berlin | Doxumentale: International Documentary and Media Festival
31 May 2026 | 4:30-5:30 pm | Berlin | African Book Festival
14 November 2025 | 7 pm | Vienna | Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
30 August 2025 | 6 pm | Berlin | Spore Initiative with Ben Miller
21 August 2025 | 6 pm | Hamburg | International Summer Festival at Kampnagel
26 July 2025 | 5 pm | Amsterdam | San Seriffe Bookstore with Camille S. Barton
24 July 2025| 7 pm| London | The Trouble Club
21 July 2025| 7 pm| London | LRB Bookshop with Rachel Connolly
10 July 2025 | 3:40 pm CET | Online | Fall for the Book Festival with Professor Aimee L. Weinstein
3 July 2025 | 8 pm | Marseilles | Artless Gallery & Bookstore with Cole Stangler
25 March 2025 | 6:30 - 7:30 pm | New York City | New York Historical Society with Leslie Jamison
20 March 2025 | 6:30 -7:30 pm | New York City | New York Public Library with Linda Villarosa
16 March 2025 | 4:00-5:30 pm | Philadelphia | Making Worlds Bookstore with Kristen Martin
5 March 2025 | 7:00 - 8:00 pm | Miami | Books & Books with Professor Terri Francis