As a veteran classroom teacher, Korean American transracial adoptee Meredith Seung Mee Buse has been featured in The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer, recognized with a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and learned innumerable lessons from her students. Because of this experience, she excels at engaging kids in tough topics. Her children’s books examine transracial adoptees’ complex lived experience from the perspective of the adopted child.

She lives in Philadelphia with her wonderful husband, two cool kids and three silly cats. She loves writing and hates deadlines in equal measure. On her blog, 365days365hours.com, Meredith grapples with her identity as a transracial adoptee and showcases her distinctive voice via entries like Day 13: To My Dad with Love, Day 235: 36 and Day 263: Meredith -- and Other White Girls Names.