Faith Eidse

Faith Eidse, PhD, recently won two medals from FL Authors & Publishers Ass'n for her Kingsbury-Award memoir, "Deeper than African Soil," which reveals the adventure and suffering of growing up among cultures in Congo, Canada and the US amid revolution, disease and boarding school trauma. Her novel, "Healing Falls," was inspired by six years volunteering in women's prisons with mothers separated from their children. She, too, was separated from her family during revolution. She co-edited two memoir collections on growing up global, "Unrooted Childhoods" and "Writing Out of Limbo," which became Princeton textbooks. Eidse won Florida's oral history of 2007 for "Voices of the Apalachicola," and published her parents' oral history, "Light the World." She has taught writing in workshops and at FSU, Barry and Keiser universities for over 25 years.