Adoptee Reading
Adoptee Reading is a catalog of books written by adoptees along with other adoption-related books recommended by adoptees. Browse more than 450 titles at https://adopteereading.com/ and check out our shop at https://bookshop.org/shop/adopteereading
@lisamarie-rollins.bsky.social
Director. Writer. #NewPlay & script developer. Dramaturg. AfroPinay #BlackFeminist Professor. Live music lover. Shower singer. Theater Maker. #DirectorSteez #ReproJustice Leads the IRIS LAB Residency & Incubator at UCSC
@wirobooks.bsky.social
Feeling literary? Come see us at www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com!
@jkwondobbs.bsky.social
mom, ajumma, poet @White Pine Press @hochroth Verlag @PalmArt Press, senior poetry editor @agnimagazine.bsky.social, translator, professor and associate dean, more at jkwondobbs.com
@cmcgettrick.bsky.social
🏳️🌈Bastard | Problematising adoption | Sociology | @adoptionrights | @maglaundries | @clann_project |🎸🎤| She/her | 🏳️⚧️☂️| Views Mine | RT/Follow ≠ endorsement. | www.criticaladoptiontheory.com
@camleesmall.bsky.social
TEDx Speaker, Counselor, Advocate Author // The Adoptee’s Journey: From Loss & Trauma to Healing & Empowerment Keynotes & trainings, scheduling now for 2025
@shannongibney.bsky.social
Author of The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be; We Miss You, GF; Where We Come From (co-author) + others. Printz Honor, Carter G. Woodson + 3 MN Book Awards. Also: Adoptee, Blerd, Mama, Prof, Runner, Traveler, waiting for the world to end in ‘25.
@alicestephens.bsky.social
FAMOUS ADOPTED PEOPLE (Unnamed Press, 2018), THE TWAIN (forthcoming from Regal House Publishing 2027), book reviewer, essayist, transracial adoptee, KAD, hapa www.famousadoptedpeople.com
@nicolechung.bsky.social
author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW. the dog is Peggy and she loves you already. linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
@kassayebm.bsky.social
Ethiopian Adoptee/Activist • Writer/Author 📚 Co-editor, Lions Roaring Far From Home: An Anthology by Ethiopian Adoptees 🤎 Working to reunite Ethiopian families Separated by International Adoption @ethioadopteesearch.bsky.social 📍 Tiohtià:ke/Montréal
@bkjackson.bsky.social
Writer/Dev. Editor/Coach—✍️in The Sun, WIRED, HuffPost, LATimes, Memoir—founder/editor of www.severancemag.com, for NPEs, MPEs, & adoptees. www.bkjacksonwriter.com creativelyadhd.substack.com Memoir, Binders
@detroitrudyowens.bsky.social
Author of You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are, an adoptee's memoir on US adoption, adoptee rights, & the public health impacts of adoption. Focus: Adoptee rights, adoption reform, all issues re rights to one's identity/bio-kin connections. All views my own.
@saraeasterlyauthor.bsky.social
Adoptee-author of essays & books that include award-winning SEARCHING FOR MOM and ADOPTION UNFILTERED. Founder of Adoptee Voices, as well as the Faith Collective for Truth and Healing in Adoption. saraeasterly.com
@penamerica.bsky.social
We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
@adopteelitfest.bsky.social
The Adoptee Literary Festival brings together writers who self-identify as adopted, fostered, or otherwise displaced to share their stories, make their voices heard, and reshape the narrative of adoption. Join us March 22, 2025. https://adopteelitfest.com
@ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary. 📚 Award-winning Author. 👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad. Latest book: With or Without You (a Junior Library Guild selection!), out now! 🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
@janinebaer.bsky.social
An #adoptee, I published a 🏳️🌈 feminist newsletter on the politics of adoption & a book on how OBCs were sealed. https://www.xlibris.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/572366-growing-in-the-dark https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/chainoflife/index.html
@monicahallauthor.bsky.social
🌸 I am an adoptee, birth mother, speaker, and writer. Author of memoir, *Practically Still a Virgin, shares the story of my adoption, turbulent upbringing in Alaska, assault, resilience, and redemption. https://www.monicahall.com/author
@plastrickland.bsky.social
Adoptee-in-reunion, memoir author, wife, parent, grandparent, and pet mom who loves family, exercise, gardens, reading, movies, travel, Mexican food, Diet Dew, wine, drawing, photography, and summertime #adoptee #author #adopteeinreunion #writer
@authorvlb.bsky.social
Warrior for women! #writer of 2 award-winning books. #booksky #thekillingcloset (#memoir - abuse & trans #lgbtq Dad) #wavingbackwards (Savannah novel) 57k words into writing a true crime novel set in early 1900s. Eek! Reunited #adoptee.
@katiejaen.bsky.social
Korean adoptee, therapist. Working on online course, “Psychotherapy From An Adoption Lens: A Practical Guide For Therapists.” Interviewed on podcasts: Creating A Family, Adoptees On. Wrote book for adoptive parents in teen years.
@yvonneliuwriter.bsky.social
Over 3 million read HuffPost #adoptee essay. NYT, Salon, Newsweek, NBC News. PEN America & Bread Loaf Writers support. Sewanee Tennessee Williams Scholarship. Modern Love podcast. Mental Health Advocate. Inkwell Mgmt. #writer #memoirs
@richardhilldna.bsky.social
Genetic genealogy speaker, adoptee, and author of "Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA"
@gretchensisson.bsky.social
Sociologist at ANSIRH/UCSF; founder of Abortion Bridge Collaborative Fund; author of 'RELINQUISHED: The Politics of Adoption & the Privilege of American Motherhood.'
@adopteekilljoy.bsky.social
Author of Adoption Fantasies & Disrupting Kinship and co-editor of Degrees of Difference; Adoptee; Critical Adoption Studies scholar https://linktr.ee/mckeekim
@kaileepedersen.bsky.social
SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS (St. Martin’s + Titan '24) PASTORALE (Burnside Review '25) writer/opera singer/swe | 🏳️🌈🇨🇳 adoptee | she/her rep: Paul Lucas @ Janklow & Nesbit kaileepedersen.com
@minster12.bsky.social
Adoptee writing from the crossroads of adoption, misogyny, reproductive justice, and mental health. Sneakerella on Disney+ and other things for TV you definitely haven't seen. www.themindystern.com
@danchaon.bsky.social
Novelist and short story writer. New novel, ONE OF US, due out Sept. 23, 2025 Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
@myadoptedlife.bsky.social
#Journalist, #Author, Black Market Baby #adoptee not #adopted, #writer #memoirist with #memoir about being sold as an infant. #amquerying, X-expat, 💙 #writingcommunity, #litagent, #adopteerights #feminist, #LBGTQ. Blog: www.myadoptedlife.com ✈️☕️🍷 🦋
@harrisonmooney.bsky.social
Author of INVISIBLE BOY: A Memoir of Self-Discovery, winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and BITTERSWEET: A Memoir of Recovery, coming fall 2026 from Greystone Books. Associate editor at The Tyee. 🥚
@thesusanito.bsky.social
Writer, adoptee, author of memoir I Would Meet You Anywhere, National Book Critics Circle finalist. 🥚 website: http://www.thesusanito.com member of the Writers Grotto
@karenpickell.bsky.social
Author of AN ADOPTEE LEXICON. Founder @AdopteeReading.bsky.social Budding genealogist/family historian. #adoptee #AdopteeVoices #cnf #genealogy #FamilyHistory -- karenpickell.com
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