Faith Adiele

just your typical nigerian * nordic *

american girl (yeah, i was obama first)

who writes * speaks * teaches * travels

(oh yeah, i was also thailand's first

black buddhist nun)

know a litwe more about you.

Faith-Based Readings

Review of 1 800 Happy Birthday in Hyperallergic

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

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

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

Best Women's Travel Writing

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

A World of Calm, HBO Max

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

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

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

Pandemic Postcard to a Stranger

A postcard I wrote to my mom's young BF

Twins: An Afro-Viking Epic

The prologue to my new manuscript in REED Mag #153

My ebook/audiobook

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

My memoir (paper)

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

My anthology

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

My PBS documentary

Buy the thought-provoking 35-minute PBS documentary

My textbook

Children's Reader

My chapbook

Ghosts is a collaboration with a Kenyan graphic designer

My memoir (cloth)

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

Nigerian #MeToo Lyric

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

Flaunt Magazine #148

Peacocks (travel micro-story)

The Rumpus

"All of the Above" the PPT marriage essay

Cosmonauts Ave

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

EssayDaily

The multicultural essay as performance

Radical Hope

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

Creating Nonfiction (textbook)

My anti-Wikipedia essay about Nigeria

Write Choices (textbook)

My chart on the Elements of Nonfiction Storytelling

I'll Tell You Mine: 30 Yrs

of Essays from Iowa Nonfiction Writing: Black Men essay

Whatever Doesn't Kill You

Six Memoirs of Strength, Resilience, and Forgiveness

Best Women's Travel Writing 10

The infamous explosive diarrhea/Great Bride Soup story!

Family Trouble (anthol)

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

Dismantle: The VONA Anthol

1st chapter of TWINS

Colors of Nature (anthol)

Twins excerpt on culture, identity & the natural world.

YES! magazine

My popular article on why memoir is the ultimate multicultural act

The Word (anthol)

Black writers talk about the transformative power of reading & writing

Coming of Age in the 21st Century

OK Humanities

Getting my first Afro was drawing a line in the sand

Go Your Own Way (anthol)

Women Travel the World Solo

The Messy Self (anthol)

Getting my first doll

Her Fork in the Road (anthol)

Women celebrate food & travel

Under her Skin (anthol)

How girls experience race in America

Women Who Eat (anthol)

A new generation on the glory of food

Show More