Home > PEN World Voices > Adiele Faith Adiele Faith Adiele was born in Spokane, WA in 1963.  Her account of being the first black Buddhist nun in Thailand, Meeting Faith: An Inward Odyssey, won the PEN/Beyond Margins Award. Her memoir-in-progress about growing up Nigerian/Nordic/American inspired the PBS documentary My Journey Home.  Her work has been widely published and received recognition from Best American Essays, UNESCO, Yaddo Foundation, Banff Centre for the Arts, PEN New England, Hurston/Wright Foundation, and others.  Adiele currently resides in Pennsylvania, where she is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh. WORLD VOICES EVENTS Wednesday, April 26 at 1:00 Writing Faith Adiele Online www.adiele.com >> Listen to Esmeralda Santiago's reading from Adiele's Meeting Faith at the 2005 PEN/Beyond Margins Awards Ceremony. >> The Encroaching Forest: Southeast Asian Memories, an essay by Faith Adiele >> Watch video clips from Faith Adiele's PBS documentary My Journey Home. Home | Site Map | Copyright / Privacy Policy | Contact Us © 2004-2010 PEN American Center. All rights reserved.