Emily Hipchen is the author of a memoir, Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an Adoption (The Literate Chigger Press, 2005). Her essays, short stories, and poems have appeared in Fourth Genre, Northwest Review, AGNI, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. A Fulbright scholar, editor of Adoption & Culture, coeditor of the book series Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture (Ohio State University Press), and an emeritus editor of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, she directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University. (updated 4/2025)