by Dirk Uphoff Mirror, mirror, on the wall, my face is reflecting someone I don’t see at all. As I look deeper, I think I see, why everyone asks me about my nationality.  Am I… 

by Akara Skye Trigger Warning: Mention of childhood sexual molestation My father was quite religious in an unassuming way and was dedicated to the Episcopal church. My mother replicated his dedication so as to not… 

By Shannon Quist  I’m a writer. I write. It’s what I do. I won my first writing award in fifth grade for a piece that was like my family: happy, static, the model of middle… 

​After living in North Texas for 31 years, I had forgotten how beautiful South Jersey was. I remember when I first moved to Texas and told them I grew up on a horse farm, the… 

Bo is thankful to be included on AKA’s blog, in the newsletter, and the adoptee community.  Her poem “Junnam Province, My Birthplace” originally appeared in Tinderbox Poetry Journal.

By Dianne Sonnenberg, AKA Board Member & International (First Nations) Adoptee Headline: Remains of 215 children found buried at former B.C. residential school, First Nation says. Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc say ground-penetrating radar was used to locate… 

When I gave birth to my first daughter, the daughter I placed for adoption, I was newly a fifteen-year-old on the heels of a physically abusive relationship with her biological father. I youthfully claimed I…