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Faith Adiele is the co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology, which contains 24 international coming of age stories (ideal for college and high school classrooms). Her travel memoir, Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun (W.W. Norton),  won the PEN Beyond Margins Award for Best Memoir of 2004.  The PBS documentary "My Journey Home" is based on her life growing up in a Nordic-American family and then traveling to Nigeria to meet her father and siblings.  Other projects include The Student Body: A Novel, a trashy thriller co-written with four Harvard pals, and 2 children's readers on urban Africa for Harcourt Brace.

A frequent contributor to O and Essence, Faith is a popular speaker and reader who has appeared on NPR, on the Tavis Smiley show, and at universities around the world.  She lives in Pittsburgh, where she teaches in the graduate program in Creative Nonfiction and is at work on a social/cultural memoir about her Nigerian Nordic American  heritage.



 


A Note from Faith...

This just in: You can now watch clips from my PBS documentary film on this website! Also, my neighbor claims to have seen me in the May spirituality issue of O, The Oprah Magazine in the article entitled, "What Does Spirituality Mean to You?" She could be telling the truth. 


I'm begrudgingly back from the UAE, where Dr. Goddess and I presented at the international Women as Global Leaders conference.  Afterwards we stayed on to celebrate my birthday and Spring Break in FABULOUS Dubai and Abu Dhabi.  BFF Michael flew in from New York for the weekend.  The trip was amazing, full of multicultural, over-the-top, Vegas-in-the-desert fun, and I can't wait to go back!  Check out the short slideshow under "Faith's Interests" on MySpace or the whole collection on Flickr.  More coming soon!

This Spring was the Spring of Saints (with presentations in St. Louis and at St. Lawrence University) but summer is the real miracle!  Check out the following Faith-based initiatives (or follow along on the Calendar):

  • May 13-June 18 • I'm teaching in South Africa, first at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town (duh) and then at the University of Witwaterstrand (Wits) in Johannesburg. 
  • June 22-28 • I'm teaching a Memoir Workshop in San Francisco at the amazing Voices: Summer Writing Workshops for Writers of Color.  Can't wait - last summer was the most diverse, supportive, life-transforming, writing experience I've ever witnessed!  
  • July 3-13 • I was awarded a fellowship to give a reading the Pan African Literary Forum's Writers Conference in Ghana!  TUITION DUE MAY 15!
  • July 13-20 • I'm teaching food writing, nonfiction form & structure, and travel writing at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.  The weekend and weeklong workshops are open registration.  
  • July 20-26 • I'm teaching a Memoir Workshop in Washington, DC for writers of African descent at the Hurston/Wright Writers' Week.  This will be my first time at HWWW, and I'm really excited, as I won an award from this great organization back in grad school.  APPLICATIONS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY APRIL 28! 

Coming up... the Writers & Readers Fest in Ubud, Bali in October!  Bali, baby!  Even better than Dubai! 


To read more blog entries by Faith, click here.

 








Faith's Links...

  • Barack Obama for President
  • Top Chef: Film Food Episode



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