An excerpt from Megan Culhane Galbraith’s “The Guild of the Infant Survivor,” a memoir of an adoptee’s quest for her past.

Megan Culhane Galbraith
Megan is a writer, visual artist, and an adoptee. She is the author of The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book, a hybrid memoir-in-essays published by Mad Creek Books on May 21, 2021. She is the associate director of the Bennington Writing Seminars and founding director of the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont Young Writers Institute.