Faith Adiele is the author of “Meeting Faith” (W.W. Norton), a memoir about becoming the first African-American woman ordained a Buddhist nun in Thailand, which received the PEN Beyond Margins Award for Best Memoir of 2005 and “The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide To Lady Problems” (Shebooks). She was writer/narrator/subject of “My Journey Home” (PBS), a documentary film about growing up with a Nordic-American mother and then traveling to Nigeria as an adult to find her father and siblings and editor of the international anthology, “Coming of Age Around the World” (New Press).
Adiele is Associate Professor in Creative Nonfiction at California College of the Arts in the Bay Area and a member of The San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, where she is completing Twins, a memoir that will finish the story begun in the PBS film. Named as one of Marie Claire magazine’s “5 Women to Learn From,” Adiele, who was educated at Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has been featured on NPR; in a pilot for a new reality show; in a national television ad; on the Tavis Smiley show; and in “A Day in the Life of Faith Adiele” (a 2-page center spread in Pink Magazine). She has also been a contributor to O: The Oprah Magazine, Essence, and Transition. Visit her at http://adiele.com.
