Essays/Memoir

Author: Emily Hipchen
Paperback, 160 pages, 2026
ISBN-13: 9781972482087

Emily Hipchen is a Fulbright scholar, the editor of Adoption & Culture, co-editor of the book series Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture (OSUP), and an emeritus editor of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. She’s an editor of Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Works of Julia Alvarez (SUNY 2013) and of The Routledge Auto|Biography Studies Reader (2015). She has edited The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader (2023) and is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Auto/Biography Studies (forthcoming, 2027) as well as six journal special issues. She is also the author of a memoir, Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an Adoption (2005), of a collection of autobiographical essays, Animal Husbandry: Stories of Relinquishment (forthcoming, Serving House, 2026), and of the scholarly monograph Frankenstein’s Kinjob: Adoptive Life (forthcoming, OSUP, 2027). Her essays, short stories, and poems have won multiple awards and have appeared in Fourth Genre, AGNI, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University, where she teaches nonfiction.