Author Biography: Long Version

Author, educator and Korean American transracial adoptee Meredith Seung Mee Buse began writing in earnest in 2021 when a 365 day, 365 hour writing challenge grew into an unexpected journey of self-exploration and identity discovery, culminating in a first trip home to her motherland of South Korea. Her opinion editorial detailing the experience ran under the headline Why Families Should Think Twice About International Adoption in The Philadelphia Inquirer. 

Drawing on her experience as both a teacher and an adoptee, Meredith wrote Searching for Adoptee Voices in Picture Books: The Single Story We Have and the Many Stories We Need, which appeared on Diversebookfinder.org. Her mini-memoir, Seoul, appeared in the Komerican Pie substack by Aram Kim and Sarah Choi and her poem Brood won an award from Adoptee Reclaimed. 

Meredith has worked with Ellen Oh, award-winning author and founder of We Need Diverse Books, and Andrea Wang, bestselling author of Watercress. She won a writing scholarship from The Highlights Foundation in 2023 and is a teaching artist for WriteGirl.

A graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Meredith has studied race, identity and representation with scholars Dagmawi Woubshet, Sarah Park Dahlen, Krista Aronson and Margaret Boyle. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Magazine for her work as an educator. Her empowering, lyrical writing examines the complex lived experience of transracial adoptees and their families with candor, hope and joy.

In addition to reading, writing and connecting with the adoptee and Korean American communities, she loves yoga, cuddling with her cats and hanging out with her family. Reach her at msmbuse@gmail.com, on IG @meredithseungmeebuse or at meredithseungmeebuse.com.