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Who Are Adoptees & Who Has the Right to Write about Them?
Thursday, March 24, 2022
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm
Books featuring adoption have garnered attention in recent years, and yet many portrayals of adoptees in literature continue to be one-dimensional. This panel takes a critical look at adoptee representations in several examples of contemporary literature in order to interrogate the ways in which adoptee narratives reflect broader understandings of adoptee identity. Panelists also examine the consequences that such problematic depictions can have on US international relations and policy-making.
Participants
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is the author of Hour of the Ox, winner of the Donald Hall Poetry Prize and a Florida Book Award Bronze Medal. She has received fellowships from Kundiman and the American Literary Translators Association and serves as a program coordinator for Miami Book Fair.
Tiana Nobile is the author of Cleave. She is a Korean American adoptee, Kundiman fellow, recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a finalist of the National Poetry Series and Kundiman Poetry Prize.
Leah Silvieus is a Kundiman fellow and books editor at Hyphen. She is also the author of three poetry collections: Anemochory, Season of Dares, and Arabilis. She is also the coeditor, with Lee Herrick, of the anthology The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit.
Ansley Moon is the author of the poetry collection How to Bury the Dead. She has received awards and fellowships from Kundiman and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Poetry Prize and the Emerging Poets Prize from the Great Indian Poetry Collective.
