Book Awards Series: Shannon Gibney and Sun Yung Shin
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
East Side Freedom Library, Saint Paul, MN 55106
THIS EVENT IS FREE; REGISTRATION IS REQUESTED
Join the East Side Freedom Library as we welcome Shannon Gibney, co-editor and contributor, and Sun Yung Shin, contributing author for When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology. This Minnesota Book Award Finalist selection is an emotion-filled collection that features 17 authors whose stories tell us important lessons about culture beyond a message to adoptees.
There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by Gibney and Nicole Chung contains a wide range of powerful, poignant, and evocative stories in a variety of genres.
These tales from fourteen bestselling, acclaimed, and emerging adoptee authors genuinely and authentically reflect the complexity, breadth, and depth of adoptee experiences.
This groundbreaking collection centers what it’s like growing up as an adoptee. These are stories by adoptees, for adoptees, reclaiming their own narratives.
Shannon Gibney is an award-winning author of books of all kinds — from novels to anthologies to essays to picture books. She writes for adults, children, and everyone in-between. Her books include, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be (Dutton, 2023), Dream Country (Dutton, 2018), and the children’s book Sam and the INCREDIBLE African and African American Food Fight (University of Minnesota Press, 2023).
신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin was born in Seoul, Korea and was raised in the Chicago area. She is the winner of many awards for her poetry collections and is an editor, writer, and cultural worker. She is the editor of What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories on Food and Family (2021) and of A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota, author of several poetry collections, the latest decorated work The Wet Hex is the winner of the Midland Authors Society Award for Poetry and finalist for a Minnesota Book Award). Her forthcoming picture book, Revolutions are Made of Love: Grace Lee Boggs and James Boggs, co-written with Mélina Mangal, will be published in 2025.
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