Faith Adiele received the PEN Beyond Margins Award for her memoir Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun. She is a co-editor (with Mary Frosch) of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology (The New Press) and the writer (and subject) of My Journey Home, a PBS documentary about growing up Nigerian/Nordic American. She is an associate professor in creative nonfiction at the California College of the Arts.