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Susan Devan Harness

Susan Devan Harness is an American Indian transracial adoptee, cultural anthropologist, writer, and speaker. She is the author of Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption, which won the High Plains Book Award for Indigenous Author and Creative Nonfiction, as well as the Barbara Sudler Award, given by History Colorado!

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Susan Devan Harness

Feb 11, 2025

To Write about the Way You Read is to Write about the Way You Live: A Conversation with Sarah Chihaya

…to write about the way I read, I also had to write about the way I lived
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Susan Devan Harness

Feb 21, 2024

Out of the Silence Comes the Form: A Conversation with Linnea Axelsson

An oral tradition is something you can add to a story that already exists, and you can now retell in a way.
Interviews

Susan Devan Harness

Nov 15, 2023

Permission to Write Her Story: A Conversation with Susan Kiyo Ito

Each adoptee has experiences that make their story unique. It’s important to understand that adoption is not a one-size-fits-all kind of situation.