FAITH ADIELE, the daughter of a Scandinavian-American mother and Nigerian father, was raised in the Yakima Valley, Washington State. She has been a Buddhist nun, college professor, community activist and petty bureaucrat, and has lived and traveled in Southeast Asia, West Africa, Mexico and Europe.
Her essays and memoirs about identity, culture, travel and spirituality have been widely published. Book-of-the-Month Club referred to her writing as "remarkable," while Belles Lettres credits it with "[reaching] into the expanding geography of black women’s experiences."
She has received the Dorothy & Granville Hicks Residency in Literature from the Yaddo Corporation, as well as fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Ragdale Foundation and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Additional honors include the first Willard R. Espy Award in Nonfiction and PEN New England Emerging Writer.
Faith divides her time between Minneapolis, Minnesota and Iowa City, Iowa, where she is currently enrolled in The Writers Workshop and the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She is at work on a family memoir and a travel memoir.
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