Here you will find books and websites of adoptee poets and writers:
Anthologies:
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Opara and Sun Yung Shin, Editors)
Parenting as Adoptees (Adam Chau and Kevin Vollmers, Editors)
Pieces of Me: Who Do I Want To Be? Voices For and By Adopted Teens (Robert Ballard, Editor)
Seeds from a Silent Tree: An Anthology by Korean Adoptees (Jo Rankin and Tonya Bishoff, Editors)
Voices From Another Place: A Collection of Works From a Generation Born in Korea and Adopted to Other Countries (Susan Soon-Keum Cox, Editor)
Memoirs and Personal Essays:
Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston – The Declassified Adoptee: Essays of an Adoptee Activist
Anne Fessler – The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
Deborah Jiang Stein – Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison and Prison Baby
Jaiya John – Black Baby, White Hands: A View from the Crib
Jane Jeong Trenka – Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee’s Return to Korea and The Language of Blood
Jean Strauss – Beneath a Tall Tree
June Cross – Secret Daughter
Katy Robinson – A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee’s Search for her Roots
Kim Sunee – Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love and the Search for Home
Mei-Ling Hopgood – Lucky Girl: A Memoir
Patrick McMahon – Becoming Patrick: A Memoir
Susan Harris O’Connor – The Harris Narratives: An Introspective Study of a Transracial Adoptee
Susan Ito – A Ghost at Hearts Edge (Editor)
Fiction
Matthew Salesses – The 100 Year Flood, I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying, The Last Repatriate
Sun Yung Shin – Cooper’s Lesson (children’s book)
Non-Fiction
Betty Jean Lifton – Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience and Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness, and Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter (memoir)
Joyce Maguire Pavao – The Family of Adoption
Matthew Salesses – Different Racisms
Rhonda Roorda – In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories, In Their Siblings’ Voices: White Non-Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Being Raised with a Black and Biracial Brothers or Sisters and In Their Parent’s Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees
SooJin Pate – From Orphan to Adoption: U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption.
Susan Devan Harness – Mixing Cultural Identities Through Transracial Adoption: Outcomes of the Indian Adoption Project (1958-1967)
Poetry
Bryan Thao Worra, DEMONSTRA, BARROW, and On The Other Side Of The Eye
Hei Kyong Kim, The Translation of Han
Jackie Kay, Red Dust Road and The Adoption Papers
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs – Paper Pavillion
Kevin Minh Allen – My Proud Sacrifice
Lee Herrick – Gardening Secrets from the Dead and This Many Miles from Desire
Sun Yung Shin – Rough, and Savage and Skirt Full of Black
