Jean MacLeod, author of At Home in This
World and contributing co-editor of Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections, is a free-lance writer who has been published in
Adoptive Families Magazine, Adoption TODAY Magazine and in the adoption essay books Passage to the Heart and Finding Happiness.  

Jean was the year-long guest columnist of a monthly adoption-parenting column for Children's Hope International and the newsletter editor for Tapestry Books. She has co-developed and facilitated a series
of parent education workshops on attachment, homeland trips, tween / teen issues, life narratives, and the lifelong core issues of adoptees.  

Jean has presented her workshops at the Colorado Heritage Camps, the Midwest Adoption Conference, the KAAN Conference, and for adoption support
groups across the USA, Canada and England. She is the mother of three daughters, two of whom were adopted from China.