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
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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.
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🥚 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.
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#KoreanAdoption #AdopteeRights
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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...
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...
October 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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...
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...
September 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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
#BookReview #KoreanAdoption #vampires
Who — or what — is killing patients at an Incheon hospital? www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @alicestephens.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social #booksky
The Midnight Shift | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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September 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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
#BookReview #KoreanAdoption #vampires
Tonight! Elaine U. Cho is an author on the rise, and you'll want to say you were there when.
August 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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 🥚
🥚 #WritingWorkshop 🥚
August 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A few spots left in this upcoming workshop. See consequenceforum.org/workshops/ for more information and to sign up.
🥚 #WritingWorkshop 🥚
🥚 #WritingWorkshop 🥚
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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
July 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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.
A Poem a Day Keeps Despair Away. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/lit... @alicestephens.bsky.social #Booksky
August 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
My self-care is reading.
🥚 #AdopteeOnly online generative writing workshop, exploring our tattoos and their meanings. To register go to form.jotform.com/251306794662...
June 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🥚 #AdopteeOnly online generative writing workshop, exploring our tattoos and their meanings. To register go to form.jotform.com/251306794662...
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🥚My podcast episode with Adoption:The Making of Me dropped today! Thanks @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social & @louisebrowne.bsky.social !
The Journey to Rediscovering Family and Self in Panama
YouTube video by The Making of Me Podcast
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May 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🥚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-...
May 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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. 🥚
May 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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. 🥚
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...
www.koreanquarterly.org/books/the-to...
The toll on the storyteller - Korean Quarterly
"We Do Not Part" ~ By Han Kang
www.koreanquarterly.org
May 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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...
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.
Personal history and natural disasters intertwine in these reflections on trauma. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/w... @ohiostatepress.bsky.social @alicestephens.bsky.social #BookSky
April 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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.
The Worst of Times, the Best of Times. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/the... @alicestephens.bsky.social #BookSky
April 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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
tinyurl.com/OKA-Rights
April 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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
tinyurl.com/OKA-Rights
A thrill and honor to be on this illustrious panel and to be amongst my community of adoptee writers.
Thank you to everyone who came out to the “Fighting Tropes, Changing Narratives: BIPOC Adoptees Break Out” panel at #AWP2025 this morning! ✊🏽😭😭
It met so much for us to share our work and be in conversation with us…Let’s keep it up!
@thesusanito.bsky.social @alicestephens.bsky.social
It met so much for us to share our work and be in conversation with us…Let’s keep it up!
@thesusanito.bsky.social @alicestephens.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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...
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/the...
The Adoptee Literary Festival Returns | Washington Independent Review of Books
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March 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🥚 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...
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/the...
🥚 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
secure.everyaction.com/05xuVX9o0USu...
#KoreanAdoption #AdopteeRights
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.
secure.everyaction.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🥚 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
secure.everyaction.com/05xuVX9o0USu...
#KoreanAdoption #AdopteeRights
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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!
bookshop.org/lists/adopte...
bookshop.org/lists/adopte...
March 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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!
bookshop.org/lists/adopte...
bookshop.org/lists/adopte...
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
#adoption #TransracialAdoption
March 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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
#adoption #TransracialAdoption
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Our workshops filled up in two days! Registration for the keynote, panels and readings will be open until March 21st. Virtual and free to attend!
March 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Our workshops filled up in two days! Registration for the keynote, panels and readings will be open until March 21st. Virtual and free to attend!
Thank you to Bodega Magazine for publishing "Cavities and Fillings," another piece in my collection of autofictional short stories. I've had trouble w/ my teeth my whole life, this story explores why while also delving into the double consciousness of the #adoptee.
www.bodegamag.com/articles/809...
www.bodegamag.com/articles/809...
Bodega | Cavities and Fillings
Fiction | Alice Stephens: Cavities and Fillings | Bodega Magazine
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March 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Thank you to Bodega Magazine for publishing "Cavities and Fillings," another piece in my collection of autofictional short stories. I've had trouble w/ my teeth my whole life, this story explores why while also delving into the double consciousness of the #adoptee.
www.bodegamag.com/articles/809...
www.bodegamag.com/articles/809...
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Thank you to the Korean Quarterly for this write-up on the Adoptee Literary Festival 2025.
Workshops are full, but registration is still open for the keynote address, panels, and readings. See our website (link in comments) to register.
Workshops are full, but registration is still open for the keynote address, panels, and readings. See our website (link in comments) to register.
Showcasing stories of adoptee lives - Korean Quarterly
Day-long virtual Adoptee Literary Festival set for March 22, 2025
www.koreanquarterly.org
February 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Thank you to the Korean Quarterly for this write-up on the Adoptee Literary Festival 2025.
Workshops are full, but registration is still open for the keynote address, panels, and readings. See our website (link in comments) to register.
Workshops are full, but registration is still open for the keynote address, panels, and readings. See our website (link in comments) to register.
Registration for Adoptee Literary Festival 2025 is open! Virtual and free to attend. Workshops are first come, first served, so sign up today at adopteelitfest.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Our 2025 Keynote Speaker is Shannon Gibney!
Shannon will appear from 11:00 – 11:40 am ET.
Registration opens Feb. 11. Please see adopteelitfest.com for more details.
Shannon will appear from 11:00 – 11:40 am ET.
Registration opens Feb. 11. Please see adopteelitfest.com for more details.
February 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Our 2025 Keynote Speaker is Shannon Gibney!
Shannon will appear from 11:00 – 11:40 am ET.
Registration opens Feb. 11. Please see adopteelitfest.com for more details.
Shannon will appear from 11:00 – 11:40 am ET.
Registration opens Feb. 11. Please see adopteelitfest.com for more details.