The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series at San Diego State University honored ORFAN as a selection in 2012 and ORFAN was also a 2012-2013 nominee for the the Freshmen Common Reading Program at California State University, Northridge.

A contributor to the non-fiction anthologies, ADOPTION REUNION and ADOPTION THERAPY (Entourage Publishing, 2014), Corie also writes a travel blog at www.desto3.com and contributes regularly to The Big Smoke USA. Corie's short story, HOW DORA FLEMING LOST HER FAITH AND FOUND GOD was recorded by J. David Core and distributed on the podcast, THRILLS AND MYSTERY.

AMERICA'S MOST ELIGIBLE, Corie's second novel, was released in May of 2015 under MVR's new imprint, india street press.

Laura Dennis was born in New Jersey and raised in Maryland, but she learned how to be a (sane) person in California, where she lost her mind and found it again in 2001. A professionally trained dancer, Laura gave up aches and pains and bloody feet in 2004 to become a stylish, sales director for a biotech startup. Then with two children under the age of three, in 2010 she and her husband sought to simplify their lifestyle and escaped to his hometown, Belgrade. While the children learned Serbian in their cozy preschool, Laura recovered from sleep deprivation and wrote Adopted Reality.

Lori Holden is recognized as an expert in the complexities of adoption. "The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption" is on required reading lists at adoption agencies in the US and Canada, and her award-winning blog LavenderLuz has helped countless adoptive families navigate their most tricky situations since 2007. Lori interviews insightful guests on her podcast Adoption: The Long View, helping adoptive parents grasp how they can better serve the deepest needs of the adoptees they love. Lori originated the Open Adoption Grid and collaborated on the resulting Inclusive Family Support Model.

Lori is a re-imaginer and reformer of how to better center policies and practices on the adoptee. She and her co-authors Sara Easterly, an adoptee, and Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, a birth mom, wrote the acclaimed and groundbreaking "Adoption Unfiltered," which reveals the candid thoughts and feelings of those most directly involved in adoptions: adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents.

Nominated by Senator Michael Bennet, Lori was honored as an Angel in Adoption® by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. She is a sought-after speaker for adoption and child-welfare agencies, parent support groups, and adoption conferences and camps. She coaches individuals and couples around adoption-related issues.

Besides a passion for reforming adoption, Lori is also a dedicated yogini. Yoga’s inherent “yoking” informs the framework she has developed on how to parent more intentionally, for example by shifting from an Either/or mindset to a BothAnd heartset. With her sister Sheri Fisher, Lori has co-authored "Standing Room Only | How to Be THAT Yoga Teacher" from the Root To Rise Yoga Teaching Method.

Lori and her husband raised their daughter and son in Denver and have now launched them into young adulthood. To say they are proud of Tessa and Reed becoming fully themselves is a big old duh.

Dr. Deanna Shrodes is the Director of PF Women and the Founder/Director of the Stronger Leadership Network. Deanna is an international speaker gifted in candid communication. As an ordained minister, accomplished musician, worship leader and recording artist, she is the sole author of five books as well as contributing writer of five books. Deanna has been featured in many publications worldwide, including The Huffington Post, and she holds a Masters in Ministerial Leadership and a Doctor of Ministry. Deanna has been married to Larry, her college sweetheart, for 35 years. She and Larry have three grown children, four perfect grandchildren and two adorable puppies.When she is not working, Deanna enjoys reading, writing, thrift store shopping, and finding great coffee.

Lynn is a closed era adoptee and a kinship adoptive parent. She writes for Lost Daughters and at her blog: tinyurl.com/yxoykzzn

Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston is an author, speaker, and social worker with a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in social work. Amanda has served the adoption and foster care communities through individual and family clinical work, group work, writing and presenting, and working for positive policy change.

Her writing and presentations have reached broad audiences through multiple books, magazines, major news and radio interviews, and conferences, and she has engaged with legislators at the state and congressional levels on adoption policy. Amanda co-facilitates an adoption support group for anyone connected to adoption, and is a quarterly contributor to Gazillion Voices Magazine. Amanda is best known for her internationally recognized, award-winning adoption blog, The Declassified Adoptee.

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Samantha Franklin was adopted as an infant and searched for and reunited with her first family in her 20's. She has enjoyed a long, wonderful reunion with both sides of her original family. She volunteers as the OK Representative for The American Adoption Congress, and also enjoys volunteering at her son's school as well. She has been a Rehabilitation Counselor, and holds a Masters in Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma.

Samantha is honored to be a contributing author in Adoption Reunion in the Social Media Age, Lost Daughter's Anthology, and Called Home.

She has blogged since 2007 at "Neither Here Nor There" (www.PeachNeitherHereNorThere.blogspot.com).

I began entertaining audiences at age five when my dad built a stage for me in our living room. I'll never forget my dancing debut at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Vineland, NJ. I was cast as a Pineapple in "The Fruit Bowl Ballet." What can I say, I was a chubby child and somehow the Cherry costume didn't fit!

I continued acting and singing through high school and toured Europe with my college concert choir. When I moved to Denver in 1972, I joined an acting troupe and was active in the theatre community for many years. A few years ago I had neck surgery and my right vocal cord was paralyzed as a result. Unable to sing anymore, I now use my slightly raspy voice to perform stand-up comedy for seniors in Northern Colorado.

My story in Adoption Reunion began when I was sent to an unwed mothers home in Omaha, Nebraska back in 1970. I never got to hold my child, but saw her through the nursery window. 24 years later, my daughter searched for me and we reunited in 1995. The pictures I posted show the first time we met and another taken last month (Dec. 2013).

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Addison Cooper is a film reviewer and a social worker. Addison's website Adoption at the Movies is an internationally trusted leading resource for adoptive and foster families. He has also written about film for The Huffington Post, and Adoptive Families, The New Social Worker, Adoption Today, Focus on Adoption, and Foster Focus magazines. Addison is also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW); in his work in foster care and adoption, he has helped hundreds of children journey through the foster care system and has helped more than a hundred families foster or adopt. Addison lives in the Los Angeles area and is married to a psychologist who, fortunately for Addison, also loves movies.