Faith Adiele is the author of Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun*, an account of becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun that won the PEN Open Book Award and routinely makes best travel writing lists. Her media credits include sleep stories for the Calm meditation app and episodes for the HBO-Max series A World of Calm. Named one of Marie Claire magazine’s “5 Women to Learn From,” Faith teaches workshops in memoir, travel writing, and more around the world, including Esalen, Insight LA, and The Open Center NYC, where she had the pleasure of interviewing Julia Cameron about mindful listening and creativity. Faith resides in Oakland and chairs the Writing & Literature Program at California College of the Arts. Her two hybrid chapbooks are out from Texas Review Press in May.