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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.htmlMorris, 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
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Formal, American/European-Type Adoption
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Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering
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