Award-winning writer Sun Yung Shin 신 선 영 speaks with us about her memoir-in-essays Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language, the inaugural selection of the Immigrant Writers on Immigrant Writing Series from Black Lawrence Press. We discuss transracial and transnational adoption, how activism can shift narratives, her experience as one of three young poets to publish collections about the Korean-American adoptee experience in 2006, and how writers can care for themselves while writing about intensely personal topics.
Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language
A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
Sun Yung Shin’s 신 선 영 website, on Facebook, @sunyungshin on Instagram, @sunyungshin on Bluesky Sun Yung Shin 신 선 영 辛善英
Recommendations
Read Nik Chang Hoon’s essays:
“Emotionally Self-Aware Adoptive Parent: Contract for Services”
“Abandoned supposings: A Letter to My Non-father’s Silence”
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