"Emily Hipchen received her PhD in literary studies from the University of Georgia. She is a Fulbright scholar, the editor of Adoption & Culture, co-editor of the book series Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture, and an emeritus editor of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. She is also the author of a memoir, Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an Adoption (2005). She’s an editor of Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Works of Julia Alvarez (2013) and The Routledge Auto|Biography Studies Reader (2015), as well as five special issues, ""Adoption Life Writing,"" ""Adoption Studies Research,"" ""Critique as a Signature Pedagogy,"" ""What’s Next? The Futures of Auto|Biography Studies,"" and most recently, ""The Dobbs Issue."" She directs the Nonfiction Writing Program as a faculty member in the Department of English at Brown University, where she teaches nonfiction writing and editing."