“I’m Not Grateful to Have Been Adopted, But I Am Thankful To Have Grown Up In A Wonderful Home”: A Conversation With Angela Tucker
By contextualizing my experience, I hoped to offer new dimensions to the conversation around adoption.
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Yvonne Liu
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Yvonne Liu is a Los Angeles-based writer who has published in the New York Times, Salon, Newsweek, NBC News, elsewhere. Over 1.5 million people read her HuffPost essay on why she kept her adoption a secret for over 60 years. She writes about mental health, childhood trauma, adoption, and Asian American experiences. Yvonne writes to help the voiceless. As an abandoned Hong Kong newborn who languished in an orphanage, she was voiceless. As a daughter of an adoptive mother with a severe mental illness and a violent father, she found herself voiceless. The NYT Modern Love podcast featured Yvonne. Readers of her work and listeners worldwide said they cried, but also found hope in Yvonne’s journey. She is writing a memoir to encourage others who experienced trauma. Yvonne is a Tin House Workshop and VONA alum. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram at @yvonneliuwriter.
“Actually, I’m Not Grateful”: A Conversation with Stephanie Foo
I found myself as a potential representative of a larger group, which had no representative. There wasn’t a first-person story about Complex Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, so I thought, “I know how to do this.”