ABSTRACT
Diane Ackerman is the author of twenty works of poetry and nonfiction, including most recently An Alchemy of Mind (prose) and Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire.
Faith Adiele’s memoir, Meeting Faith, won the PEN Beyond Margins Award for Best Biography/Memoir of 2005. Her work has appeared in O, Essence, Ploughshares, Transition: An International Journal, Ms., Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, and numerous anthologies. Adiele resides in Pittsburgh, where she is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She is finishing a memoir about growing up Nigerian/Nordic/American, which inspired the PBS documentary My Journey Home.
