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Faith Adiele is a memoirist, travel writer, teacher, and social justice activist. Born to a Nigerian father and a Nordic-American mother, she is the author of two memoirs, Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun that won the PEN Open Book Award, and The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems. After briefly dropping out of Harvard University, she earned her B. A. in southeast Asian studies, then an M. A. in creative writing from Lesley College, M. F. A. in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and M. F. A. in nonfiction from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program. She is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Nonfiction at California College of the Arts and core faculty at Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program and VONA Workshops for Writers of Color. She is co-host/co-founder of African Book Club at San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora; BIPOC Writing Party, a weekly response to the pandemic; and Traveling while BIPOC at VONA, the nation’s first writing workshop for travelers of color.