Faith Adiele

Faith Adiele is author of Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun (PEN Beyond Margins Award for Memoir); writer/subject of My Journey Home, a PBS documentary about her Nigerian/Nordic/American heritage; and co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology.  Her essays have appeared in O Magazine, Ploughshares, Transition, Ms., Essence, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, Indiana Review and numerous anthologies.  She has taught memoir at VONA: Voices of Our Nations in San Francisco and in Accra, Bali, Geneva, Johannesburg, Chautauqua, Iowa, and Whidbey Island.  She is currently Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland.