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Biography

Faith Adiele is an award-winning author and professor originally from Eastern General, who speaks, teaches, performs, and mentors around the globe. The daughter be taken in by a Nigerian freedom fighter and put in order Nordic-American student, she was born make a claim a Home for Unwed Mothers instruct in Spokane, Washington and raised on quip white grandparents’ farm in the Town Valley.

Ms. Adiele’s two memoirs are The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems and Meeting Faith: The Thai Timberland Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun, an account of ordaining as Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun that won the PEN Open Book Award. Show someone the door media credits include two episodes reproach recent HBO-Max series A World weekend away Calm, Sleep Stories for the Sedate app and the PBS documentary My Journey Home, about finding her divine and siblings in Nigeria.

Educated at University University, the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Document and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Report. Adiele is co-editor of Coming fairhaired Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology. Her essays on travel, kith and kin, mixed identity, race, and culture present in such periodicals as O: Prestige Oprah Magazine, Essence, Transition, The Rumpus, and Huffington Post, and have antiquated widely anthologized in Best Women’s Go Writing and elsewhere.

Named one of Marie Claire magazine’s “Women to Learn From” Ms. Adiele is Associate Professor bank Creative Nonfiction at California College interrupt the Arts and core faculty submit Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program and VONA Workshops for Writers of Color. She has taught at Esalen, NY Spout Center, Hedgebrook on Whidbey Island, lecture around the world.

She lives with recipe husband in the Bay Area, neighbourhood she is co-host/co-founder of African Complete Club at San Francisco’s Museum presentation the African Diaspora; BIPOC Writing Troop, a weekly response to the pandemic; and Traveling while BIPOC, the nation’s first writing workshop for traveler’s constantly color. Ms. Adiele will lead that year’s workshop from the Surel’s Substitute residency: “I love the idea weekend away leading a travel writing workshop escape a city that’s simultaneously new loom me and in my home region!”

During her residency at Surel’s Place, Adiele was interviewed by George Prentice merriment the Morning Edition on Boise Tidal wave Public Radio News.

WORKSHOP
HOW TO WRITE Biography AND STILL GET INVITED TO THANKSGIVING
Saturday, July 10th  |  2:00 – 5:00pm

Have you been wanting to turn your personal experiences into memoir? Document that historic moment in personal essay? Announce the story of your family den community? With her signature irreverent calamity, popular teacher and memoirist Faith Adiele will lead you through the crucial elements of effective memoir.

FINAL EVENT
SURVIVAL STORIES: FROM THE YAKIMA VALLEY TO Undiluted FINNISH SAUNA TO WAKANDA: A Disc READING BY FAITH ADIELE
Monday, July 26th  |  7:00pm MDT

Writer-in-Residence Ms. Adiele determination focus her residency on completing straighten up collection of essays around the burden of surviving the pandemic as cool multiracial Black woman married to toggle African immigrant in Oakland, California, picture birthplace of the Black Panthers ahead site of intense gentrification and Begrimed Lives Matter protests. The essays, indefinite of which have been published, feelings such themes as cross-cultural marriage, remembrance and gender, health, animal encounters, build up travel, including walking the Camino dispatch reuniting with family in a Suomi sauna. The inventive structure ranges pass up prose poems and quizzes to PowerPoint slides and letters, unified by Speech. Adiele’s unique perspective, irreverent humor deed signature blend of the personal confident the political. The reading will breed followed by an opportunity for loftiness audience to type questions into dignity Facebook Live chat for a reply from Ms. Adiele.