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Join Also-Known-As and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in person to celebrate When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology, edited by Nicole Chung and Shannon Gibney. The first of its kind, When We Become Ours is a powerful and poignant story collection written by and for adoptees in a variety of styles and genres. Our celebration will feature a thoughtful discussion with contributors Rebecca Carroll, Lisa Nopachai, Matthew Salesses, and Eric Smith, moderated by Lily Philpott. We’ll have books available for purchase and signing from our dear friends at Yu & Me Books.
There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung contains a wide range of powerful, poignant, and evocative stories in a variety of genres.
These tales from fifteen bestselling, acclaimed, and emerging adoptee authors genuinely and authentically reflect the complexity, breadth, and depth of adoptee experiences. This groundbreaking collection centers what it’s like growing up as an adoptee. These are stories by adoptees, for adoptees, reclaiming their own narratives.
With stories by: Kelley Baker, Nicole Chung, Shannon Gibney., Mark Oshiro, MeMe Collier, Susan Harness, Meredith Ireland, Mariama J. Lockington, Lisa Nopachai, Stefany Valentine, Matthew Salesses, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, Eric Smith, Jenny Heijun Wills, and Sun Yung Shin. Foreword by Rebecca Carroll and afterword by JaeRan Kim, MSW, PhD.
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Rebecca Carroll is a writer, cultural critic, and host of the podcasts Come Through with Rebecca Carroll: 15 conversations about race in a pivotal year for America, and the award-winning Billie Was a Black Woman. Her memoir, Surviving the White Gaze, has been optioned by Killer Films, with Rebecca attached to write and develop for episodic TV. She is the creator and curator of the live event and audio series, In Love and Struggle, which shares the experiences of Black women through monologues, stories, music, and humor. Rebecca is the author of several interview-based books, and her first among them, I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like: The Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers, will be rereleased by Haymarket Books in 2024. Her writing has been published widely, and she is currently Editor-at-Large for The Meteor media collective.
Lisa Nopachai is a Mexican-American transracial adoptee, born in Texas and raised in an Italian-American family in New Jersey. With a BA from Amherst College and an MA from Fuller Theological Seminary, Lisa has worked in the fields of child advocacy and healthcare chaplaincy, and is currently studying to become a spiritual director. She lives with her husband and two daughters in North Jersey.
Matthew Salesses was adopted from Korea. He is the author of eight books, most recently The Sense of Wonder, the PEN/Faulkner finalist Disappear Doppelganger Disappear, and the national bestseller Craft in the Real World. He is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Columbia University.
Eric Smith is a literary agent and author living in Philadelphia. He’s worked on New York Times bestselling and award-winning books, but hasn’t written one of those yet. Maybe someday. His books include Don’t Read the Comments, You Can Go Your Own Way, Jagged Little Pill: The Novel, and With or Without You.
Born in Santiago, Chile and raised in New England, Lily Philpott is an indigenous transracial adoptee. She has worked for close to a decade in the arts and culture nonprofit sector in New York City at PEN America, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She is a member of the Starlings Collective, a group supporting BIPOC adoptee writers; the International Literature Committee at the Brooklyn Book Festival; the curatorial committee of the 2024 PEN America World Voices Festival; and she volunteers as the Director of Programs at the nonprofit organization Singapore Unbound. Currently, she is completing her MFA in Fiction at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). She lives in Brooklyn, and wants to know what you’re reading.
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Founded in 1991, Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) is devoted to creating, publishing, developing and disseminating creative writing by Asian Americans, and to providing an alternative literary arts space at the intersection of migration, race, and social justice.
Join Also-Known-As and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in person to celebrate When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology, edited by Nicole Chung and Shannon Gibney. The first of its kind, When We Become Ours is a powerful and poignant story collection written by and for adoptees in a variety of styles and genres. Our celebration will feature a thoughtful discussion with contributors Rebecca Carroll, Lisa Nopachai, Matthew Salesses, and Eric Smith, moderated by Lily Philpott. We’ll have books available for purchase and signing from our dear friends at Yu & Me Books.
There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung contains a wide range of powerful, poignant, and evocative stories in a variety of genres.
These tales from fifteen bestselling, acclaimed, and emerging adoptee authors genuinely and authentically reflect the complexity, breadth, and depth of adoptee experiences. This groundbreaking collection centers what it’s like growing up as an adoptee. These are stories by adoptees, for adoptees, reclaiming their own narratives.
With stories by: Kelley Baker, Nicole Chung, Shannon Gibney., Mark Oshiro, MeMe Collier, Susan Harness, Meredith Ireland, Mariama J. Lockington, Lisa Nopachai, Stefany Valentine, Matthew Salesses, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, Eric Smith, Jenny Heijun Wills, and Sun Yung Shin. Foreword by Rebecca Carroll and afterword by JaeRan Kim, MSW, PhD.
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Rebecca Carroll is a writer, cultural critic, and host of the podcasts Come Through with Rebecca Carroll: 15 conversations about race in a pivotal year for America, and the award-winning Billie Was a Black Woman. Her memoir, Surviving the White Gaze, has been optioned by Killer Films, with Rebecca attached to write and develop for episodic TV. She is the creator and curator of the live event and audio series, In Love and Struggle, which shares the experiences of Black women through monologues, stories, music, and humor. Rebecca is the author of several interview-based books, and her first among them, I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like: The Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers, will be rereleased by Haymarket Books in 2024. Her writing has been published widely, and she is currently Editor-at-Large for The Meteor media collective.
Lisa Nopachai is a Mexican-American transracial adoptee, born in Texas and raised in an Italian-American family in New Jersey. With a BA from Amherst College and an MA from Fuller Theological Seminary, Lisa has worked in the fields of child advocacy and healthcare chaplaincy, and is currently studying to become a spiritual director. She lives with her husband and two daughters in North Jersey.
Matthew Salesses was adopted from Korea. He is the author of eight books, most recently The Sense of Wonder, the PEN/Faulkner finalist Disappear Doppelganger Disappear, and the national bestseller Craft in the Real World. He is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Columbia University.
Eric Smith is a literary agent and author living in Philadelphia. He’s worked on New York Times bestselling and award-winning books, but hasn’t written one of those yet. Maybe someday. His books include Don’t Read the Comments, You Can Go Your Own Way, Jagged Little Pill: The Novel, and With or Without You.
Born in Santiago, Chile and raised in New England, Lily Philpott is an indigenous transracial adoptee. She has worked for close to a decade in the arts and culture nonprofit sector in New York City at PEN America, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She is a member of the Starlings Collective, a group supporting BIPOC adoptee writers; the International Literature Committee at the Brooklyn Book Festival; the curatorial committee of the 2024 PEN America World Voices Festival; and she volunteers as the Director of Programs at the nonprofit organization Singapore Unbound. Currently, she is completing her MFA in Fiction at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). She lives in Brooklyn, and wants to know what you’re reading.
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Founded in 1991, Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) is devoted to creating, publishing, developing and disseminating creative writing by Asian Americans, and to providing an alternative literary arts space at the intersection of migration, race, and social justice.
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The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is thrilled to partner with the Asian American Literary Review and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center to present a series of readings by Asian American poets from the BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2020 anthology, edited by Paisley Rekdal.
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AAWW is a national not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the creating, publishing, developing and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans–in other words, we’re the preeminent organization dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told.
We’re building the Asian literary culture of tomorrow through our curatorial platform, which includes our New York events series and our online editorial initiatives. In a time when China and India are on the rise, when immigration is a vital electoral issue, when the detention of Muslim Americans is a matter of common practice, we believe Asian American literature is vital to interpret our post-multicultural but not post-racial age. Our curatorial take is intellectual and alternative, pop cultural and highbrow, warm and artistically innovative, and vested in New York City communities.
Our curatorial platform is premised on the idea of a big-tent Asian American cultural pluralism. We’re interested in both the New York publishing industry and ethnic studies, the South Asian diasporic novel and the Asian American story of assimilation, high culture and pop culture, Lisa Lowe and Amar Chitra Katha, avant-garde poetry and spoken word, journalism and critical race theory, Midnight’s Children and Dictee. We are against both an exclusive literary culture that believes that race does not exist and Asian American narratives that lead to self-stereotyping and limit the menu of our identity. We are for inventing the future of Asian American literary culture. Named one of the top five Asian American groups nationally, covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Poets & Writers, we are a safe community space and an anti-racist counterculture, incubating new ideas and interpretations of what it means to be both an American and a global citizen.")
