Today’s guest is poet Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello. Marci shares about growing up in a deeply religious adoptive family. We talk about finding room in her writing for questions about her origins that may never have answers, how translation can echo the adoptee experience, and why creating spaces for adoptee writers matters. There is a mention of abuse in this episode so please take care when listening.

Show Notes

Full episode transcript here.

Recommended Resources

Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship
Hour of the Ox by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
Behold and Forbid Them Not: Notes of an Adoptee
Forgiveness is Not a Star but a Dragonfly
Adoptee Literary Festival
The Starlings Collective

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