For Adoptees
I’m an adoptee, memoirist, essayist, and teacher. Most of my writing and teaching is shaped by adoption: by questions of identity, memory, relinquishment, family story, belonging, and what it means to tell the truth about a life that has so often been narrated by other people. I care about complexity, emotional honesty, and making room on the page for what adoptees know and feel, even when it resists neat language or easy conclusions.
This page gathers the adoptee-centered parts of my work in one place.
Upcoming
Relative Strangers
I’m honored to have an essay in Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship, an anthology exploring the complexity of encountering unknown close relatives and the stories that unfold from those connections.
Writing Personhood: For Adoptees
A writing class for adoptees who want to explore identity, memory, voice, and the distance between the story we were given and the story we actually lived. Click the link for details about dates, pricing, registration, and more.
Speaking & Events
I participate in conversations, readings, and panels about adoptee storytelling, narrative authority, identity, and what it means for adoptees to speak and write in our own voices.
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This Sunday, May 17, I’ll be attending The Be Well Series: Featuring Relative Strangers, an online event connected to the book. I won’t be speaking at that one, but I’m glad to be there, to listen, and to support a collection that makes room for family complexity.
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This Monday, May 18, I’ll be part of Adoption Network Cleveland’s Monday Evening Speaker Series featuring B.K. (Kate) Jackson. The conversation will focus on adoptee storytelling, the importance of telling our own truths, and why it matters that adoptees and NPEs speak for ourselves instead of letting other people shape the narrative for us.
