Faith Adiele, winner of the 1999 Espy Award, was also an Espy residency recipient in February of 2001. During her first residency, she completed the first draft of her memoir Meeting Faith (Norton, 2004), which received the PEN award. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh. Faith’s essays, travel writing, and memoirs have been widely published and anthologized. She holds a BA in Southeast Asian Studies from Harvard College, an MA in Creative Writing from Lesley College, and MFAs from the University of Iowa in both Fiction and Nonfiction. Faith was shortlisted by Best American Essays in 2003 and 2005, has received fifteen residencies in four countries, and was given the Millennium Award for Creative Nonfiction in 2000.
“The return to Espy in 2006 (five years after having completed the first draft of my memoir, Meeting Faith) was even more delightful than that first visit. It was lovely to return to the gorgeous top floor of the well-equipped Guesthouse, which fit my needs for light and space perfectly…This group of artists established a wonderful camaraderie with each other, as well as with the local Oysterville residents who opened their homes to us with charm and graciousness. What a lovely time! I completed and delivered Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology for The New Press, a collection of 24 cutting edge nonfiction and fiction tales that chronicle the quest for identity across the globe. As co-editor and contributor, I hope to see the book make its way onto college and high school curricula.”
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