Faith Adiele

Faith Adiele is an award-winning memoirist, essayist, travel columnist, and journalist. Author of Meeting Faith, a memoir about becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun, and four hybrid chapbooks exploring her Nigerian-Nordic-American heritage, she has published in O: The Oprah Magazine, The Offing, and the Miami Herald, among others. Her media work includes HBO-Max’s A World of Calm, PBS, and Calm Sleep Stories. Named one of Marie Claire’s “Five Women to Learn From,” she founded the nation’s first BIPOC travel writing workshop, teaches globally, and has held 30 artists’ residencies in six countries.