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JODY KEISNER is a writer, teacher, first-generation college graduate, and ex-waitress.
Her first book Under My Bed and Other Essays is forthcoming September 1, 2022 and available for preorder. Her essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, Cimarron Review, Post Road, Brevity, Threepenny Review, Hunger Mountain, The Rumpus, The Normal School, Women’s Studies, and many other literary journals and magazines. She writes for AARP’s The Girlfriend, and is the Editor-in-Chief of The Linden Review, a journal of creative nonfiction focused on health. She lives in Omaha with her family.

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Jody Keisner I was adopted when I was thirty days old during the Baby Scoop Era. Nobody knows where I was for the thirty days after my birth and before my adoptive…moreI was adopted when I was thirty days old during the Baby Scoop Era. Nobody knows where I was for the thirty days after my birth and before my adoptive parents brought me home. Psychologically, what happens to those babies in this in-between space? And what happens to the women who act as their temporary caregivers? Are they ever reunited? What would they learn about loss, love, and adoption?(less)
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