Emily Hipchen

Emily Hipchen is a Fulbright scholar, the editor of Adoption & Culture, co-editor of the book series Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture (OSUP), and a co-editor of a/b: Autobiography Studies. She is also the author of a memoir, Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an Adoption (2005). She's an editor of Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Works of Julia Alvarez (SUNY 2013), of The Routledge Auto|Biography Studies Reader (2015), and of The Rutledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader (forthcoming, 2022); as well as an editor of five special issues. Her essays, short stories, and poems have won multiple awards and have appeared in Fourth GenreNorthwest Review, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She is the director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University, where she teaches nonfiction.

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Best American Essays 2016*

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