I am an adoptee currently focusing research in critical adoption studies, with particular interest in reunion narratives and in adoption and loss of birth culture. I am also interested in motherhood, trauma, and epigenetics.

Maggie M. Werner, Ph.D., is Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, specializing in rhetorical criticism and sexual rhetorics. Her monograph, Stripped: Reading the Erotic Body was published by Penn State UP in 2020, and her research also has been published in Western Journal of Communication, Feminist Formations, Rhetoric Review, Composition Studies, Present Tense, and the collection Peace and Social Justice Education on Campus. She is currently writing a book on portmanteau words with Dr. Star Vanguri (forthcoming, Palgrave). She teaches writing and rhetorical criticism, focusing particularly on analysis, argumentation, and style.

Liz Wright is Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Min Yang is a PhD candidate in Technical Communication & Rhetoric at Texas Tech University. Her research interests include NNES writing teacher identity, linguistic justice in writing studies, and intercultural communication. Her dissertation explores how Chinese graduate instructors construct writing teacher identity in U.S. classrooms through the lens of feminism, linguistic justice, and translingualism.