Faith Adiele is a memoirist, essayist, travel writer, and speaker. She is author of Meeting Faith, an award-winning account of becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun, and recently, experimental chapbooks Her Voice: Hänen Äänensä: A Hybrid Memoir and Voice/Over: A Memoir Breakout in 7 Movies. Media credits include A World of Calm (HBO-Max), Sleep Stories (Calm App), and the documentary My Journey Home (PBS) about finding her family in Nigeria. Her award-winning journalism appears in Alta, Smithsonian, Hyperallergic, Miami Herald, and others. Faith teaches in the MFA Writing Program at California College of the Arts and chairs Writing & Literature.
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