Danna Schmidt @dannadschmidt.bsky.social Writer. Ceremonialist. End-of-Life Navigator. Medical Aid in Dying advocate. Wife. Mother. Abolitionist. Adoptee. Survivor. Other duties as assigned. (Seeking rep for memoir); https://altaredmoments.substack.com/
Michèle Dawson Haber @micheledhaber.bsky.social Writer, Potter, Step Adoptee, Worker Advocate, Slowest Cyclist Ever. Salon, NYT Modern Love. TAL
#binders, #memoir #canadianwriter #reconstructionistjudaism
Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social Adoptee, ATMOM Podcast Co-Host, adoptee, YA/Children’s book Author, budding writer, FinTech EA….past ice cream trucker.Hiker, dog
/animal lover, kayaker & supporter of ALL people. #adopteevoices
Heather Massey @heathermassey.com Science Fiction Romance author, geek, suburban mom.
Explore my books at heathermassey.com
Chaitra WL @drchaitra.bsky.social Liberation psychologist, Author, Adoptee, Nature lover, Fierce advocate for equity & compassion, Opinions are my own
Karlos Dillard @wardofthestate.bsky.social ✨Always Shine Your Light✨
FFY/ Transracial Adoptee, Author & Speaker.
Amandine Gay @orpheonegra.bsky.social Réalisatrice @OuvrirLaVoix #unehistoireasoi #Ballroom Autrice #unepoupeeenchocolat #VivreLibre Conférencière Filmmaker/Writer/Speaker/Adoptee
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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social Board member, Autumn House Press
Debut story collection 'Impossible Children' won the Mary McCarthy Prize, out now from Sarabande Books
Core faculty, West Virginia Wesleyan College Low-Res MFA in Creative Writing Program
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Maria S. Picone @mspicone.bsky.social Just a writer trying to have a social media account lmao
Managing Editor @chestnutreview.bsky.social
https://www.mariaspicone.com/
https://www.coniumpress.com/this-tenuous-atmosphere
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Greg Santos @gspoet.bsky.social Poet/Editor/Educator | Ghost Face 2020 & more | Editor in Chief of carte blanche | Adoptee 🇰🇭🇵🇹🇪🇸🇨🇦 | Lives with GAD/asthma/prediabetes| He/Him | Tiohtià:ke/Montréal
Damon L. Davis @damonldavis.bsky.social Adoptee Storyteller | Entrepreneur
Lisa Olivera @lisaolivera.bsky.social Therapist, author, mother, human. Writer of the Human Stuff newsletter. Practicer of presence, compassion, possibility, and imagining more beautiful futures, from the inside out. lisaolivera.com
Alison Kinney @alisonkinney.bsky.social Author: UNITED STATES OF REJECTION: A STORY OF LOVE, HATE & HOPE (UGA Press, May 1, 2026): https://www.ugapress.org/9780820377230/united-states-of-rejection/
David Enker @handle.invalid Writing. Art. Design. A.I. | adoptee | father 🧒🏼 | Parkinson
mariettewrites @mariettewrites.bsky.social ☀️Florida based travel + culture writer
🌴Caribbean expert
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Andrea Ruggirello @andrearuggs.bsky.social Writer
Steve Haruch 오용찬 @steveharuch.bsky.social writer, editor, senior producer @nashvillebanner.bsky.social | 📚 Greetings From New Nashville + People Only Die of Love in Movies | words & audio at NYT, Atlantic, NPR, et al | steveharuch.com | Signal: sharuch.90 | wearenorthnashville.org
Liz Prato @lizprato.bsky.social We still need joy.
author “Volcanoes, Palm Trees & Privilege: Essays on Hawai’i” 🌴 “Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning” 👩🎤 “Baby’s on Fire”🔥 Italian 🇮🇹 Invisible Disability 🌻Editor at Forest Avenue Press
Janaea Eads @byjanaeaeads.bsky.social Dog mom, writer, food lover & gastronaut at BU. Rep: @pterlip at ABLA
Janaeaeads.com
Dr. Ali Maaxa @peoplescience.bsky.social Anthropologist on the loose~
Stephanie Drenka @stephaniedrenka.bsky.social Korean adoptee writer, historian, and pole dancer.
Mary-Kim Arnold | 김 미 진 @mkimarnold.bsky.social writer, artist, higher ed + arts administrator * Litany for the Long Moment (Essay Press), The Fish & The Dove (Noemi Press) * live and work on Narragansett land (RI)
@artistcommunities.bsky.social
mkimarnold.com
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Sarah Audsley @saudsley.bsky.social author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press)
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Laura Barcella @laurabarcella.bsky.social Erstwhile writer & editor; professional kitten caregiver; candy hoarder; fragrance junkie; Swiftie
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Dr. Liz DeBetta @dr-liz-debetta.bsky.social Transforming Lives Through Connection and Creativity | Award-Winning Artist, Educator & Creator of Migrating Toward Wholeness© | Trauma-Informed Storytelling & Healing Expert
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Jeanette Yoffe @jeanetteyoffe.bsky.social Psychotherapist in the field of foster care, adoption & reunification Expert in Los Angeles. Post about mental health best practices. CEO, YouTuber, Author, M.O.M. Adoptee raised in Foster care.
Kevin Barhydt @kevinbarhydt.bsky.social Author Actor Creator Educator 
Kaitlyn Airy @kaitlynairy.bsky.social Poet ❤️🔥 Associate Editor for Poetry Northwest ⛰️ Research Associate & Lecturer at UVA 📚
Susan D Harness @sdharness.bsky.social Author, cultural anthropologist, Indigenous transracial adoptee (Salish & Kootenai), quilter, gardener, and all-around nice person. Life happens - there are lessons in each happening.
Lucia Blackwell @luciablackwell.bsky.social Pacific Northwest landscapes & the essays they inspire. Minnesota-raised adopted person writing my way toward home.
https://linktr.ee/luciablackwell
Sara Docan-Morgan @esjaydm.bsky.social 
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello @marcicalabretta.bsky.social Writer and translator
Suzie Fedorko @suziefedorko.bsky.social Artist, Author, Retiree, Adoptee, Writer..
Wife- Mother - Sister- Aunt- Daughter
crafter and GRANDMOTHER. Native American 🪶
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tiana nobile 문영신 @tiananob.bsky.social poet, author of Cleave (Hub City Press, 2021)
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Mark Oshiro @markdoesstuff.bsky.social #1 NYT Bestselling Author of YA and MG | Rep'd by Jordan Hill and Trinica Sampson-Vera | Latinx | They/Them | Profile image by @dariusvoncel
Mirella Stoyanova @mirellastoyanova.bsky.social Writer, therapist. Recovering perfectionist. Adoptee.
Words @writeordiemag @huffpost @businessinsider & more.
Mostly on IG @mirellastoyanova.
mirellastoyanova.com
Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Teacher | Author of First Kicking, Then Not (Stanchion 2025) | Columnist @ WCP
she/they 🏳️🌈 ❤️
www.hgrieco.com
신 선 영 辛善英 Sun Yung Shin @sunyungshin.bsky.social 🍉 ABOLISH ICE. Author of Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language, The Wet Hex, Unbearable Splendor, + 11 other books. Rep: Tricia Lawrence @Aevitas & bookings: @BlueFlowerArts. www.sunyungshin.com
Rena Joy Poetry @renajoypoetry.bsky.social ❤️🩹 There is life to live & joy to be found after trauma. Adoptee.
📚Fairy Tales for Hopeless Girls, out now
✍🏻 Meet me Chapters St. Albert, July 25
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social Author of THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW, out now from Bold Type / critic with words in NYRB, NYT Mag, WaPo, The New Republic, and elsewhere / member Freelance Solidarity Project and National Book Critics Circle / Philly / kristenmartin.net
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
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Kit Myers @kit-myers.bsky.social He/him. Assist. Prof Ethnic Studies at UC Merced. Hong Kong Adoptee. Adoption researcher. Father. Abolitionist (Prisons, CPS, Patriarchy, ICE, etc). Views are my own.
Angela Tucker @angieadoptee.bsky.social Author of “You Should Be Grateful:” Stories of Race, Identity and Transracial Adoption
KayelaWrites @kwrights.bsky.social I write #kidlit stories about finding hope and strength during times of darkness. Nonfiction Enthusiast. Story Collector. Library Lover. Adult ELL teacher. Gardening is my therapy #Adoptee for family preservation
Nik Nadeau 임창훈 @nikchanghoon.bsky.social Korean adoptee writer. '24 Annie Dillard Prize for CNF winner & Iowa Review Award finalist. '24-25 Bread Loaf, Tin House & Kenyon alum. CNF reader @ Hypertext Review. nikchanghoon.com
Sarah Myer - WONDERCON, AWESOME CON @smyercomics.bsky.social They/them
Eisner-Nominated Comic artist, writer, colorist
Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Saturday Morning Adventures
Sarahmyer.net 
Sarah Reinhardt @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social Writer, adoptee, co-host of the podcast Adoption: The Making of Me, human and dog parent, empty-nester, Public Media (KCUR)
Kathryn Joyce @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social Journalist covering the right. Author of The Child Catchers & Quiverfull. Writing in various places.
kathrynajoyce@gmail.com
Signal: kathrynajoyce.01
The Good Adoptee ❌👑 @thegoodadoptee.com AKA Suzanne Bachner • she/her • Award-Winning Playwright & Director • Actor-Lover • Native New Yorker • #AdopteeRights #Theatresky #ArtAndAdvocacy #EqualityForAll
🩷🦋
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EmmaStevensWriter @emmastevenswriter.bsky.social Adoptee|Writer|Mother|Memoirsx2
Mariama J Lockington @marilock.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Award winning author. Adoptee.
I’VE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM 10/14/25
Aimee Seiff Christian @thewriteaimee.bsky.social Memoirist, essayist, adoptee, bird person, word nerd, queer Gen X grouch. Unapologetically type A. Writing instructor and editor. Disability advocate. Skating fan.⛸️
Words in The Rumpus, NYT, Atticus Review, WaPo, Poets & Writers, etc. Also on Substack!
LisaMarie @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 
Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social Feeling literary? Come see us at www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com!
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs 허수진 @jkwondobbs.bsky.social mom, ajumma, poet @White Pine Press @hochroth Verlag @PalmArt Press, senior poetry editor @agnimagazine.bsky.social, translator, professor and assoc. dean, more at jkwondobbs.com
Dr Claire McGettrick Born Lorraine Hughes @cmcgettrick.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Bastard | Problematising adoption | Sociology | @adoptionrights | @maglaundries | @clann_project |🎸🎤| She/her | 🏳️⚧️☂️| Views Mine | RT/Follow ≠ endorsement. | www.criticaladoptiontheory.com
Cam Lee Small @camleesmall.bsky.social TEDx Speaker, Counselor, Advocate
Author // The Adoptee’s Journey: From Loss & Trauma to Healing & Empowerment
Keynotes & trainings, scheduling now for 2025
Shannon Gibney @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, working w/you against authoritarianism.
Alice Stephens @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
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social Formerly the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social A LIVING REMEDY, a New York Times Notable Book • ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW, National Book Critics Circle finalist • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Kassaye @kassayebm.bsky.social Founder @ethioadopteesearch.bsky.social
📚 Lions Roaring Far From Home and others
B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Coach—editor of the anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship; Founder, Severancemag.com
DetroitRudyOwens @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.
Sara Easterly @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
PEN America @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.
Adoptee Literary Festival @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
Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social 🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You.
Next: The Adopted Kids’ Guide to Surviving Seventh Grade (Crown, Spring 2027)
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social An #adoptee, my book "Growing in the Dark" explains who was behind the sealing of adoption records and the harm done by these laws. https://www.xlibris.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/572366-growing-in-the-dark
🕊️ "Never again" means never again for anyone.
Monica Hall Author @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
Paige L A Strickland @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
V.L. Brunskill @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.
Katie Naftzger @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.
Yvonne Liu. Writer. Adoptee. Memoir-in-Progress @yvonneliuwriter.bsky.social Over 3 million read HuffPost #adoptee essay. NYT, Salon, Newsweek, NBC News. Sewanee Tennessee Williams Scholar. Received support from PEN America & Bread Loaf Writers. Modern Love podcast. Mental Health Advocate. James Patterson grant #writer #memoirs
Richard Hill @richardhilldna.bsky.social Genetic genealogy speaker, adoptee, and author of "Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA"
Gretchen Sisson @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.'
Kimberly McKee, PhD @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
Kailee Pedersen @kaileepedersen.bsky.social THE MINIMALIST (St. Martin's '26)
PASTORALE (Burnside Review '25)
SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS (St. Martin’s + Titan '24)
writer/opera singer/swe | 🏳️🌈🇨🇳 adoptee | she/her
rep: Paul Lucas @ Regal Hoffmann
kaileepedersen.com
Mindy Stern @minster12.bsky.social Adoptee. Writer. Wife. Mother. Pizza, dogs, Knicks, Dodgers. Sneakerella on Disney+, words in Business Insider, Huff Post, Esperanza, Human Parts, and more. www.themindystern.com
Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social Novelist and short story writer.
Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
Patricia Knight Meyer - www.myadoptedlife.com @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 ✈️☕️🍷 🦋
Harrison Mooney @harrisonmooney.bsky.social Author of INVISIBLE BOY, winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, BITTERSWEET (spring 2027) and I JUST HAVE TO RACE ALL THESE GHOSTS (summer 2027). Host of @TheTyee podcast. East Vancouver.
Susan Kiyo Ito @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 
Karen Pickell @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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