Fish, Laura

Fish is a transracial adoptee, of Guyanese and Jamaican parentage. She has been in contact with her birth parents since 1989.

Her first novel is Flight of the Black Swans (1995). In 2001, while a student at the University of East Anglia, she accused her lecturer, who is the Poet Laureate of England, Andrew Motion, of sexual harassment.

References

Joyce, Graham. "Poetic License." Salon, 7 August 2001. Available at: http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/2001/08/07/motion/print.html
Morris, Steven. "Motion in Row with Female Student." Guardian Unlimited Education, 2 April 2001. Available at: http://books.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4163422,00.html

Indexes

Guyana
Jamaica
Uk/great Britain
20th Century
21st Century
Literature
Formal, American/European-Type Adoption
Others ("Strangers")
Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering
In Contact With Birth Family