Carrie Kitze is the founder and publisher of EMK Press, an adoptive mother of two children from China. She is active in adoption affairs and a speaker at a variety of adoption events worldwide on the topics of:

• Adoption Parenting 101,
• Parenting with Narratives,
• Co-creating Lifebooks,
• Ceremonies and Rituals for adoptive families and
• Discovering Differences, a workshop for Kindergarten through third graders.

She is a regional Families with Children from China coordinator,and has written for Adoptive Families Magazine. She is the author of We See the Moon and I Don't Have Your Eyes and spends more time on publishing functions than writing functions these days. EMK Press publishes books and free downloadable resources for families touched by adoption. Our flagship "blue toolbox book" called Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections has become the adoptive parent's bible. Required by many agencies for adopting familes, this 520 page book with over 110 contributors is the "What to Expect" book for adoptive families.