Susan Kiyo Ito

adoption politics

A neurodivergent adoptee journeys through adoption trauma healing, reunion with her biological family, connecting with other adoptees and more...

Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.

Writer, professor, director of the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska. ONE BRILLIANT FLAME forthcoming in January. @_JoyCastro

Three verticals: Memoir Monday: A collaboration among Granta, Guernica, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Oldster Magazine; First Person Singular original essays; The Lit Lab interviews + craft essays.