Animal Husbandry

Emily Hipchen is a Fulbright scholar, the editor of Adoption & Culture, co-editor of the book series Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture (OSUP), and an emeritus editor of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. She is the author of a memoir, Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an Adoption (2005) and of the scholarly monograph Frankenstein's Kinjob: Adoptive Life (forthcoming, OSUP, 2027). Her essays, short stories, and poems have won multiple awards and have appeared in Fourth Genre, AGNI, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University, where she teaches nonfiction.