Author

Meet Jade Amez™

Jade Amez (pronounced: jayd aymz) is an Asian-American children’s book author and proud Midwesterner. She loves fall for its vibrant colors and start of football season, measures distance in time, and she is a big fan of cheese (but not a Cheese Head).

Growing up, Jade rarely saw books that featured adoption, mixed-race families or multi-cultural families.

Jade started her ‘roots’ journey in high school, and connected in-person with her birth mother a few years later. After years of sharing her adoption story, she began writing her debut children’s book.

Growing up, Jade rarely saw books that featured adoption, mixed-race families or multi-cultural families. She also didn’t have many books that introduced topics like: identity, rejection, racial sensitivity, family dynamics, trauma, or emotions a child or an adoptee may feel growing up. Her book introduces these topics in a way that’s more accessible for children who may not have the words to voice their own experiences or thoughts.

Jade hopes her book will teach children that families come in all shapes and sizes - you don’t have to look like everyone in your family to call them family. This book is dedicated to anyone whose stomach clenches when asked, “where are you from?” or “no, but where are you really from?”

Let’s challenge the ‘traditional’ sense of family, the idea that anyone adopted has or wants to meet their other family members, or being more sensitive to this common yet complicated question. Everyone has a unique adoption journey, and if her story helps one child or family, or provide a new lens to the question “where are you from?,” Jade will feel all the effort to self-publish her book was worth it.

When Jade is not writing, she can be found traveling the world, playing hockey or soccer with friends, or looking for a new food truck to try. Jade also loves dumplings! Xiao Long Baos from Din Tai Fung are one of her favorites. You may see a few dumplings hidden in her children’s book! If you have a favorite dumpling restaurant, new restaurant suggestions are always welcomed.