Susan Ito

Susan
Ito edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories
& Poems of Adoption (North Atlantic Books). Her work has appeared
in many journals and anthologies, including Growing Up Asian American,
CHOICE, The Bellevue Literary Review, Hip Mama, Making More Waves, The
Maternal Is Political, and elsewhere. She is creative nonfiction editor
at the online journal Literary Mama, and also writes a monthly column
there called "Life in the Sandwich," about her multigenerational household. She writes a blog at www.readingwritingliving.wordpress.com.

All That We Have Chosen

I was toxemic, poisoned by pregnancy. My only cure was to not be pregnant anymore. But my life had been shaped by reproductive choices long before this latest one.