LuLu Grant
About
My Chinese name is Long Fu Lu (龙福路). Adopted from Jiangxi province at two years old, I am one of the 160,000 international Chinese adoptees. I grew up near Seattle, Washington, but now live in Mexico with my husband where I teach ESL online to Chinese children around the world and write about the complexities of adoption.
My work has been featured in outlets like Hippocampus Magazine, Glassworks Magazine, Yellow Arrow Publishing, and Huffpost Personal. I am actively seeking representation for a memoir about my journey to reconnect with my heritage and reunite with my birth parents.
I also work with the nonprofit Nanchang Project to help Chinese adoptees search for their birth families.
龙福路
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Hippocampus Magazine
"Each time I witness a birth, see the umbilical connecting mother and baby, I think of her, the woman I was once connected with."
Glassworks Magazine
"Little by little month by month, we work to stitch together our shattered hearts."
Yellow Arrow Publishing
"When I look at you, I don't see the man who left me. I see you trying to make up for lost time, trying to be my Ba Ba."
South China Morning Post
"People think that finding your birth family is so joyous, and part of it is, but it is also very sad and difficult."
"Mom had adopted me from China, which meant our faces didn’t match. It hadn’t occurred to me that other body parts wouldn’t either."
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*If you are a Chinese adoptee interested in looking for birth family, please refer to Nanchang Project.