Adoption
From as early as I can remember, I knew I was adopted and I knew that I loved making up stories. I don’t know if I wanted to become a writer because I was adopted, or I would have wanted to be a writer no matter what path my life had taken. My adoption journey has included the examination of the intersection of adoption and literature in my life.
Petition for Justice and Reform: Stand with Overseas Adopted Koreans
Please sign this petition for immediate, concrete action from both the South Korean and U.S. governments to deliver the justice and support adoptee adults deserve.
South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning
I was featured in a Frontline documentary, South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning, which exposes the fraud and abuse inherent in adoption practices.
Who Am I, Then?
My story was featured in “Who Am I, Then?” an interactive feature portraying South Korean adoptees searching for their roots and part of an Associated Press series on South Korean adoptees.
Adoptee Literary Festival
In 2022, I was the co-founder of the Adoptee Literary Festival. Read about its origin story. In 2025, we returned for the second literary festival. Watch the panels and readings from both festivals here.
Korean adoptees in U.S. feel used and abandoned by the system
AsAmNews interviewed me about my reaction to South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s finding of fraud and abuse in their investigation into overseas adoptions. April 17, 2025.
Documented but scared: Why some adopted from overseas worry about Trump
I was one of several intercountry adoptees from the DMV area interviewed by the Baltimore Banner in the aftermath of Trump’s second inauguration. January 19, 2025
Rewriting the adoption narrative
This article is the 11th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Among the first wave of transracial adoptees from Korea to the United States, Alice Stephens shares her journey to the truth of the origin of her life. Her story enlightens us to the fact that adoptees' lives are closely intertwined with the political turmoil of Korean's modern history beyond our imagination. Korea Times, August 15, 2021
The first time I was on PBS was for the NewsHour, where I shared the importance of adoptees being the subject, and not the object, of their own stories.