Jane Jeong Trenka
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Jane Jeong Trenka was born in Seoul, Korea. She and her sister were adopted into
a white family in rural northern Minnesota in 1972. She was reunited with her
birth family in 1995. Jane is the author of The Language of Blood: A Memoir,
published by Borealis Books, as well as the forthcoming Fugitive Visions,
to be published by Graywolf Press in Spring 2007. She has received numerous awards
for her writing, including selection for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New
Writers program.
Jane Jeong Trenka has received fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Loft Literary Center, the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, and SASE: the Write Place. Cited by the City Pages as “Best Book by a Local Author” and by the Minnesota Humanities Commission for a “New Voice” commendation, The Language of Blood received the Minnesota Book Award for Autobiography/Memoir and was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection.
Julia Chinyere Oparah
Click here to view Julia Chinyere Oparah's full Author PageJulia Chinyere Oparah is a professor of Ethnic Studies at Mills College, a women’s liberal arts college in Oakland, California, author (under her previous name, Julia Sudbury) of Other Kinds of Dreams: Black Women’s Organisations and the Politics of Transformation (Routledge 1998) and editor of Global Lockdown: Race, Gender and the Prison-Industrial Complex (Routledge 2005). Oparah is involved in the prison abolitionist, anti-violence and global justice movements and is a co-founder of Sankofa, a support group for transracial adoptees in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sun Yung Shin
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Sun Yung Shin is the author of Skirt Full of Black (poems,
Coffee House Press 07), co-editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial
Adoption (South End Press 06), and Cooper's Lesson (Korean/English children's
book 04). Shin is a 2007 recipient of a Bush Artist Fellowship and has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Jerome Foundation. She teaches at the College of St. Catherine, the Perpich Center for Arts Education, Intermedia Arts, and the Loft Literary Center. She lives in Minneapolis.