A transformative 300-mile walk along Japan’s ancient pilgrimage routes and through depopulating villages inspires a heartrending remembrance of a long-lost friend, documented in poignant, imaginative prose and remarkable photography.

Adopting Privilege: A Memoir of Reinventing my Adoptee Narrative” by Dr. Abigail K. Hasberry offers a powerful exploration of adoption through the eyes of a transracial adoptee, birth mother, and therapist.

The Violence of Love challenges the narrative that adoption is a solely loving act—a narrative that is especially pervasive with transracial and transnational adoptions.

Gunpowder Press is honored to be the publisher of California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick’s In Praise of Late Wonder.

Going Unarmed Into the Wail is an intense, intimate chapbook that wrestles with what it is to be a product of the adoption-industrial complex.

This book critically analyses the way in which traditional sociocultural and legal biases might be perpetuated against those with unknown – or unknowable –  genetic ancestries.

Adoption is often framed by happy narratives, but the reality is that many adoptees struggle with unaddressed trauma and issues of identity and belonging.

As John Gallaher prefaces this book, “It should have been an easy story to sort out, but it took fifty years.”

A powerful, experiential journey from white cult to Black consciousness: Harrison Mooney’s riveting story of self-discovery lifts the curtain on the trauma of transracial adoption and the internalized antiblackness at the heart of the white evangelical Christian movement.

'I live at the end of a gravel road at the top of a valley consumed by bush. My husband is here and my three girls. But the bush swallows them up like the road'. I wrote those words at the kitchen table in 1983. A letter to the mother I’d never met.

“Do you know your real parents?” is a question many adoptees are asked. In In Reunion, Sara Docan-Morgan probes the basic notions of family, adoption, and parenthood by exploring initial meetings and ongoing relationships that transnational Korean adoptees have had with their birth parents and other birth family members.

How Korean adoptees went from being adoptable orphans to deportable immigrants

The poems in Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory interrogate identity, family, loneliness, and the expectations of masculinity.

We live in a world where conversations about trauma are becoming commonplace and adopted people are using their voices to educate the general public about the effects of maternal separation and genealogical bewilderment

In Adoption Fantasies, Kimberly D. McKee explores the ways adopted Asian women and girls are situated at a nexus of objectifications—as adoptees and as Asian American women—and how they negotiate competing expectations based on sensationalist and fictional portrayals of adoption found in US popular culture.

POWER OF OUR WOMBS is an ode, a tribute, and honor work. It’s my mirror work to go back and fetch- infant me.

Growing up with adoptive nisei parents, Susan Kiyo Ito knew only that her birth mother was Japanese American and her father white.

Hanabata Days is a graphic memoir that explores the unexpected reunion of a father and son, 47 years after separation.The diasporic story unfolds visually over the span of 60+ years navigating shifting geographic and cultural dissonance, from pre-tourism Hawai'i to present day Middle America.

Can writing your story save your life?