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.
I also lead adoptee-only writing sessions from time to time, based on interest. If you'd like to be notified when one is scheduled, reach out at thewriteaimee@gmail.com.
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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I'm looking forward to reading from my essay in Relative Strangers on Tuesday, October 13, at An Evening with B.K. Jackson and Friends, an in-person event at Hummingbird Books in Newton, MA. I'll be joined by B.K. Jackson, Nina B. Lichtenstein, and L.C. Coppola for readings and a Q&A.
