Jane Jeong Trenka
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Jane Jeong Trenka is an internationally adopted Korean and the author of two memoirs, The Language of Blood: A Memoir (2003) and Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee’s Return to Korea (2009). Together with Sun Yung Shin and Julia Chinyere Oparah, she co-edited the anthology Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (2006). Trenka’s work on overseas adoption been cited for several prizes, most recently an Amnesty International Media Award in 2017 for the series “65 Years of Overseas Adoption,” published in the online newspaper Pressian together with Jeon Hong Kihye and Dr. Lee Kyung Eun. She and her work have also been cited for awards from Center for Children, Law and Ethics at Cumberland School of Law, Samford University; the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea; the Korea Publication Ethics Commission; the Minnesota State Arts Board; the Loft-McKnight Foundation; the Loft Literary Center; Barnes & Noble Bookstore, and others. Her writing is taught in widely in American universities, and has been included in the Contemporary Period volume of the The Heath Anthology of American Literature. As an activist, Trenka was instrumental in revising Korea's Special Adoption Law in 2011 and continues to work on child rights and adoption-related issues in Korea. Trenka majored in public policy at the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University, writing her thesis on adoption law.
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