V.L. Brunskill is the award-winning author of the Savannah novel Waving Backwards and the forthcoming memoir The Killing Closet. She is also a blogger at adoptionfind where she shares lessons learned from her (pre-internet) adoption search, and her journey towards spiritual healing.
In addition to her personal blog, V.L. is head of conference production at Argyle. In this role she creates content, abstracts and landing page copy for all events. She also oversees a robust team of producers, speakers and sponsors.
Long before she penned her first novel, V.L. was putting pen to paper as a freelance music journalist at Metronome Magazine, North Shore Magazine, CREEM, SPIN, and the Boston Phoenix. From rock stars to rocking ions, V.L. went on to become senior editor of an IT magazine, and a technical writer in the ion implantation field.
Having found her birth family, her reunion journey entailed a daunting seven-year-search for her birth mother, and another five-years looking for her birth father.
She moved South to be closer to both.
“Searching is difficult. Finding is life-altering.”- V.L. Brunskill
V.L. Brunskill 
Thank you for attending my talk with Pat Conroy at the Savannah Book Festival, and for the the kind words posted here. After reading about your work as an adoptee search angel, I thought I’d pass something along that I don’t believe I mentioned in my talk. You referenced the Mexico story I told, which involved the sheep for Antonio. My daughter, MB, who was with us that day, is adopted from Korea. We have three sons, “the biologicals” MB calls them, and one daughter: her. While she was able to learn the identity of her birth family, she hasn’t made a decision as to contacting them. I consider her a great gift from the universe to us.
Hey! Glad to have met you today! Looking forward to talking to you again! Shawna Kicklighter