Link to PDF: How an Adoptee Reads Literary Rejection Letters: a lost and found poem by Danna Schmidt

DANNA SCHMIDT is an adoptee and ceremonialist whose poetry and prose has appeared in The Sun and Severance magazines, Raven Chronicles, Bending Genres, Adoptee Voices, and the forthcoming anthology, Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship. Danna lives in the PNW with her husband Curt and their two cats, Buddy Guy and Willie Dixon. She’s working on her speculative memoir about family secrets and the prices we pay to keep them.