Alice Stephens

Miss you every day, Dad. Thank you for so much, including making me a reader, which in turn made me a writer.

Loved this dizzying, hyperkinetic debut novel. I don't mention it in this review, but also has an eerie synergy with Famous Adopted People.

I'm reading it now! (Even though I don't attend class with you, I'm eternally one of your students!)

Back by popular demand! 🥚
Our tattoos often hold the stories we struggle to voice— identity, loss, and resilience etched into our bodies. In this intimate, #adoptee-only generative workshop, we’ll explore the narratives behind our ink.
To sign up and learn more go to form.jotform.com/joonae/writt...

Free literary salon hosted by @wwph.bsky.social, a mighty cooperative nonprofit literary small press, at the Arts Club of Washington on Oct. 9, 6-9 pm, featuring 2 writing workshops and readings from the anthology AMERICA'S FUTURE. Spaces limited, RSVP acw.wildapricot.org/event-631395...

Loved this book featuring a Korean Adoptee as a vampire hunter. And yeah, I go there in the review, comparing adoptive parents to vampires.
#BookReview #KoreanAdoption #vampires

Tonight! Elaine U. Cho is an author on the rise, and you'll want to say you were there when.

A few spots left in this upcoming workshop. See consequenceforum.org/workshops/ for more information and to sign up.
🥚 #WritingWorkshop 🥚

Screw you too, Holly!! Making me write all those book reviews. XOXO

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A physician and atom-bomb survivor exposes the truth about radiation poisoning. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/a... @alicestephens.bsky.social #Booksky

My self-care is reading.

🥚 #AdopteeOnly online generative writing workshop, exploring our tattoos and their meanings. To register go to form.jotform.com/251306794662...

The Journey to Rediscovering Family and Self in Panama YouTube video by The Making of Me Podcast

🥚My podcast episode with Adoption:The Making of Me dropped today! Thanks @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social & @louisebrowne.bsky.social !

Thanks to Consequence for publishing "The Lucky Ones," about my mother relinquishing me to my Korean adoption agency. Consequence addresses the consequences of war & I'm gratified they recognize intercountry adoption thrives in wars & dictatorships. consequenceforum.substack.com/p/the-lucky-...

S Korea's Truth & Reconciliation Commission found my #adoption, a textbook case of relinquishment & placement, to be in violation of my human rights due to the orphan hojuk. This is huge because 1000s of Korean adoptees were permanently separated from their families of origin by the orphan hojuk. 🥚

The toll on the storyteller - Korean Quarterly "We Do Not Part" ~ By Han Kang

My review of Nobel Prize winner Han Kang's WE DO NOT PART, a novel of memory and forgetting. "[Kang's] stories transcend time and place to speak to the very truths of humanity and the struggle to understand the evil that is done in our name."

www.koreanquarterly.org/books/the-to...

My review of Korean adoptee Amy Lee Scott's collection of essays, WHEN THE WORLD EXPLODES, which bravely and beautifully explores motherhood, loss, grief, and adoption.

I wrote about finding joy and solace in these tumultuous times.

We have 1000 signatures!! Many adoptees are reeling from the Frontline doc and the Truth & Reconciliation Commission's report on human rights violations in S Korean adoption & feel helpless about next steps. Here's a simple and concrete action to take. Please sign and share!
tinyurl.com/OKA-Rights

Thank you for attending, Sandi!! I hope we can do it again!!!

Thanks for being the amazing keynote and uplifting so many adoptee writers, Shannon 💛

A thrill and honor to be on this illustrious panel and to be amongst my community of adoptee writers.

🥚 Thank you to my favorite book review site @wirobooks.bsky.social for featuring the @adopteelitfest.bsky.social. Adoptee Literary Festival 2025 is online and free to attend! Read all about it!!

www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/the...

Thank you, I appreciate that!

Thanks for sharing, Sandi! <3

Our goal is 20,000 signatures. With over 200,000 Korean adoptees, plus the many millions of adopted people, I really hope we can get there. Thanks for signing!

Petition for Justice and Reform: Stand with Overseas Adopted Koreans Join us in urging the U.S. and South Korean governments to expand resources, enhance transparency, and strengthen programs that honor the commitments made to adoptees and their families.

🥚 Shouldn't it be a right for a person to know who their parents are? Shouldn't it be a right that children who were adopted to the US from abroad be American citizens? Sign this petition & stand with Overseas Adopted Koreans.

secure.everyaction.com/05xuVX9o0USu...

#KoreanAdoption #AdopteeRights

Thank you to @loyaltybooks.bsky.social for being the official bookstore for the Adoptee Literary Festival 2025. Support adoptee authors and indie bookstores and order today!

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Usually I remove all the tabs from a book before I photograph it for social media, but I kept them in for THE VIOLENCE OF LOVE by Kit W. Myers to show how many important passages there were. Read my review at www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t...

#adoption #TransracialAdoption