LuLu Grant
About
LuLu is a transracial, international Chinese adoptee. Adopted from Jiangxi province at two years old, she grew up near Seattle, Washington. She now lives in Mexico with her husband.
LuLu teaches ESL online to children around the world and works with Nanchang Project to help Chinese adoptees find their birth families. In 2024, LuLu went to China and reunited with hers. She's working on a memoir about her experience.
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龙福璐
Select Writing & Interviews
Hippocampus Magazine
"As I witness this intimate moment, my own tears trickle. They are full of tender happiness for the new family but also fierce jealousy and sadness. This baby, not yet ten minutes old, already has everything I yearn for."
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 Baba."
Morning Post
“People think that finding your birth family is so joyous, and part of it is, but it’s also very sad and very difficult,” she said, adding that “it’s not how I wish it were, and sadly, it’s never going to be that. That’s impossible.”
“I didn’t think about my breasts being different from the White majority surrounding me again until that night.”