Transracial adoption topic of Writer’s Series talk Feb. 15
Jane Jeong Trenka, a writer and activist whose controversial views on transracial adoption challenge the Korean government’s adoption policies, will kickoff the spring semester Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series. She will talk on the writer’s craft at 4 p.m. and read from her work at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 15 in Comstock Memorial Union 101.
Cited by the CITY PAGES as “Best Book by a Local Author” and by the Minnesota Humanities Commission for a “New Voice” commendation, The Language of Blood, Trenka’s first book, received the Minnesota Book Award for Autobiography/Memoir and was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. Her new memoir, Fugitive Visions, was published by Graywolf Press in 2009. Trenka has received fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Together with Julia Sudbury and Sun Yung Shin, Trenka is co-editor of Outsiders Within (2006), an anthology on transracial/transnational adoption.
She lives in Seoul, Korea.