Join Adoptees United (USA) and Adult Adoptee Movement (UK) on Sunday, December 3, for a transatlantic book party with two adoptee authors.
We’ll be joined by Susan Kiyo Ito, US-born adoptee and author of the memoir I Would Meet You Anywhere, and Liz Harvie, UK-born adoptee and author of Unspoken: The Silent Truth Behind My Lifelong Trauma as a Forced Adoptee.
Join us on Sunday, December 3, 2023, at 2pm Central (USA)/8pm GMT (UK/London). Registration is free but contributions are always appreciated to keep our organizations’ work moving and our speakers’ experience valued.
Note: Registration remains open during the event, but registrations submitted after 1:00pm Central (USA)/7:00pm GMT (London) are not eligible for the book giveaway.
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About the Authors
Susan Kiyo Ito
Author of I Would Meet You Anywhere
Susan Kiyo Ito is the coeditor of the literary anthology A Ghost at Heart’s Edge: Stories and Poems of Adoption. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. A MacDowell Fellow, she has also been awarded residencies at the Mesa Refuge, Hedgebrook, and Blue Mountain Center. She has performed her solo show, The Ice Cream Gene, around the US and adapted Untold Stories: Life, Love, and Reproduction for the theater. She writes and teaches in the Bay Area.
Liz Harvie
Author, with Eve Hatton, of Unspoken: The Silent Truth Behind My Lifelong Trauma as a Forced Adoptee
Liz Harvie was born in Northampton in 1974. She stayed with her mother in a Maternity Home for 10 days, when she was taken from her by a social worker and put into foster care, before her adoptive parents took her home at 8 weeks old. Liz is a victim of forced adoption, among 185,000 other babies taken in the 30 or so years after the 2nd World War ended.
Liz lives in Camberley, Surrey with her husband, two daughters and two dogs. She is an End Of Life & Pastoral Care Companion volunteer at her local hospital and hospice.