Faith-Based Readings

Review of Afrofuturism Exhibition
Review of Afrofuturism Exhibition
To Mario, 26-Year-Old Bestie...
To Mario, 26-Year-Old Bestie...
Wangechi Mutu Art Review
Wangechi Mutu Art Review
Pandemic Travel, Toronto Star
Pandemic Travel, Toronto Star
Damon Lawrence Profile
Damon Lawrence Profile
Irôko/Speculative Nonfiction
Irôko/Speculative Nonfiction
Flight Advice in Washington Post
Flight Advice in Washington Post
Review of 1 800 Happy Birthday in Hyperallergic
Review of 1 800 Happy Birthday in Hyperallergic
Dear Biracial/Mixed/Multiracial Girl
Dear Biracial/Mixed/Multiracial Girl

Faith's epistolary manifesto appears in Dear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters On Stepping Into Your Power, ed. Tamara Winfrey Harris (Mar 9)

On Traveling While Black
On Traveling While Black

Faith's critique of travel writing was runner up for non-fiction in the 2020 Curt Johnson Prose Awards, selected by Dr. Britteny Cooper

Sleep Story, CALM App
Sleep Story, CALM App

Idris Elba reads Faith's first Sleep Story - about her visit to Lesotho!

Best Women's Travel Writing
Best Women's Travel Writing

Read "A Family Project", Faith's account of meeting family in Finland

A World of Calm, HBO Max
A World of Calm, HBO Max

Faith's episodes were narrated by Mahershala Ali and Kate Winslet.

The Eye Exam
The Eye Exam

Faith's humorous, angry, satirical essay about being racially profiled at the opthamologist's office is nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Alone Together
Alone Together

Sales of Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of Covid-19 benefit indie bookstores!

Pandemic Postcard to a Stranger
Pandemic Postcard to a Stranger

A postcard I wrote to my mom's young BF

Twins: An Afro-Viking Epic
Twins: An Afro-Viking Epic

The prologue to my new manuscript in REED Mag #153

My ebook/audiobook
My ebook/audiobook

Lady Problems, my short ebook takes a humorous look at black women & fibroids.

My memoir (paper)
My memoir (paper)

Meeting Faith, my account of becoming Thailand's first Black Buddhist nun

My anthology
My anthology

I co-edited 24 international stories ideal for the classroom.

My PBS documentary
My PBS documentary

Buy the thought-provoking 35-minute PBS documentary

My memoir (cloth)
My memoir (cloth)

The hardcover edition of my memoir: no Reader's Guide. Click to read excerpt:

Nigerian #MeToo Lyric
Nigerian #MeToo Lyric

My Nigerian #MeToo lyric essay, published in Aké Review, reprinted in Brittle Paper

Flaunt Magazine #148
Flaunt Magazine #148

Peacocks (travel micro-story)

The Rumpus
The Rumpus

"All of the Above" the PPT marriage essay

Cosmonauts Ave
Cosmonauts Ave

How to Make a Metaphor in B&W (digital essay)

EssayDaily
EssayDaily

The multicultural essay as performance

Radical Hope
Radical Hope

On 10th anniv of her father's passing, Faith bids farewell to Obama

Creating Nonfiction (textbook)
Creating Nonfiction (textbook)

My anti-Wikipedia essay about Nigeria

Write Choices (textbook)
Write Choices (textbook)

My chart on the Elements of Nonfiction Storytelling

I'll Tell You Mine: 30 Yrs
I'll Tell You Mine: 30 Yrs

of Essays from Iowa Nonfiction Writing: Black Men essay

Whatever Doesn't Kill You
Whatever Doesn't Kill You

Six Memoirs of Strength, Resilience, and Forgiveness

Best Women's Travel Writing 10
Best Women's Travel Writing 10

The infamous explosive diarrhea/Great Bride Soup story!

Family Trouble (anthol)
Family Trouble (anthol)

My essay on the challenges of writing memoir about the Black family (biological and global)

Dismantle: The VONA Anthol
Dismantle: The VONA Anthol

1st chapter of TWINS

Colors of Nature (anthol)
Colors of Nature (anthol)

Twins excerpt on culture, identity & the natural world.

YES! magazine
YES! magazine

My popular article on why memoir is the ultimate multicultural act

The Word (anthol)
The Word (anthol)

Black writers talk about the transformative power of reading & writing