Wendy Barkett

Wendy is an adoptee who was born in Columbus Ohio in 1972 and adopted at 5 days old. She spent much of her life dreaming of her first mother and had high hopes of meeting her once again someday.

After searching for her truth for 14 years she finally received her first mothers name, Dottye, and then found out she had died at the young age of 24 in a car accident.

In 2016 with the help of DNA she was finally able to identify who her birth father was. He had passed away in 1998.

Wendy has spent most of her life expressing herself through the written word as well as photography, and has put together a selection of her poems pertaining to feelings surrounding her adoption in the book Shadows of a Dark-Alley Adoptee. Her hope is that her book will help others to understand her personal struggles with being adopted as well help others who share those struggles.

For Wendy, being adopted and finding her first mother and father at a grave have had a huge part in defining who she is.