Book Reviews

An Adoption Legend: Review of The Hundred-Year Flood by Matthew Salesses — Lost Daughters, September 2, 2015
Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe — A Memoir by Lori Jakiela — Lost Daughters, August 4, 2015
Reunited, a book by investigative genealogist Pamela Slaton — Lost Daughters, April 26, 2015
Two Memoirs by Claire Hitchon: Finding Heart Horse and The Wall of Secrets — Lost Daughters, February 8, 2015
Out of Love by Noelle Sickels — Lost Daughters, December 7, 2014
The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave — Lost Daughters, September 2, 2014
Searching for the Castle by Barbara Leigh Ohrstrom — Lost Daughters, February 21, 2014
Thrall, by Natasha Trethewey — Flycatcher, Summer/Fall 2013
Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems, by Tom Hennen — Flycatcher, Summer/Fall 2013
Not Only the Things That Have Happened by Mridula Koshy — Lost Daughters, November 21, 2013
Becoming Patrick: A Memoir, by Patrick McMahon — Lost Daughters, July 1, 2013
Split at the Root, by Catana Tully — Lost Daughters, May 6, 2013
Sharks in the Rivers, by Ada LimónFlycatcher: A Journal of Native Imagination, January 2013
Gloss, by Ida Stewart Flycatcher: A Journal of Native Imagination, Winter 2011/2012
Weather, by Dave LucasFlycatcher: A Journal of Native Imagination, Winter 2011/2012

Blogs

At Lost Daughters, a community for adopted women:

“Thoughts on Family after a Decade in Reunion” — June 25, 2015
“Dear Elton John, It’s Not All About You” — March 19, 2015
“We Are Not Our Story: An Interview with Author and Adoptee Claire Hitchon” — February 28, 2015
“Support Family Preservation on This Giving Tuesday” — December 2, 2014
“Why Must We Search for Our Birth Parents?” — November 10, 2014
“Adoptee Identity and the Fear of Losing Connections” — October 9, 2014
“Adoptee Reactions to Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) in the Media” (with Matthew Salesses) — May 19, 2014
“All I Want for Christmas Is My OBC” — December 22, 2013
“My First Adoptee Rights Demonstration Experience” — August 23, 2013
“More Adoptee Poet Discoveries” — July 10, 2013
“The Lost Daughters Discuss The Child Catchers by Kathryn Joyce” (five-part series) — May 2013
“Long Way Out of the Fog: A Review of Split at the Root by Catana Tully” — May 6, 2013
“Adoptee Poet Rachel Rostad” — April 15, 2013
“Betsie’s Quest: Origins of an Ohio Adoptee Rights Activist” — March 26, 2013
“Tell Me Who My Father Is” — March 9, 2013
“The Connectedness of Motherhood” — February 18, 2013
“This Is Not About #Adoption: A Tumblr Book-In-Process By Matthew Salesses” — January 22, 2013
“A Conversation With Elaine Pinkerton, Author Of The Goodbye Baby” — January 8, 2013
“Website to Watch: Watch Adoptee Films” — December 9, 2012
“NaBloPoMo Day 25: Understanding” — November 25, 2012
“NaBloPoMo Day 21: Biology” — November 21, 2012
“NaBloPoMo Day 19: Adoptee Writers” — November 19, 2012
“The Perfect Name” — September 23, 2012
“When Grief Goes Unrecognized” — August 29, 2012
“Adoptee Reaction to Timothy Green” — August 18, 2012
“Just Another Lost Daughter” — August 14, 2012

Poetry

“Lore of the Birth Mother” — Conte, May 2014, Volume 9, Issue 2
“In Search Of” — Lost Daughters: Writing Adoption From a Place of Empowerment and Peace (January 2014)
“Swimming” — Reach of Song: Georgia Poetry Society’s 2013 Anthology
“Back to the Heartland”Cleveland Review, Winter 2012
“Can’t Tell by Looking at Them”Bluestem, September 2011
“Reflection”Poets on Adoption, May 2011
“Birth Name”Poets on Adoption, May 2011