B.K. (Kate) Jackson, along with a panel of essayists, will discuss the forthcoming anthology: Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship—personal essays about the experience of encountering unknown close relatives. Together they’ll address the importance of storytelling for adoptees and how it contributes to shaping the narrative about adoption.

About B.K.:
B.K. (Kate) Jackson is the editor of Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship, which will be published in June by ELJ Editions. She’s a developmental editor, a certified book coach, and a journalist who’s contributed to HuffPost, The Los Angeles Times, The Sun, SurvivorLit, Whale Road Review, Hippocampus Magazine, WIRED and more. She earned a BA and an MA from UCLA. Kate is the founder and editor of Severance (severancemag.com)—a magazine and community for adoptees and individuals who’ve discovered misattributed parentage. She’s revising a memoir about maternal abandonment and family secrets. She lives in Milford, Pennsylvania. Find her at www.bkjacksonwriter.com, creativelyadhd.substack.com, and halfasorrow.substack.com.