Faith Eidse

Kingsbury Award winner for her forthcoming memoir, Deeper than African Soil, Eidse also won TWA's Seven Hills Literary Contest 2021 & 2022 non-fiction prizes. These were for memoir excerpts narrating her childhood flight in Congo's 1964 revolution and substantial exposure to leprosy while helping her mom, Congo's Mother Teresa.

Eidse's recent bestselling novel, Healing Falls, "explores critical issues facing the American justice system, as well as the power of faith and artistic expression to transform lives," wrote TWA author Donna Meredith. Writer’s Digest called it, “Moving, noble, timely,” and of great impact in promoting understanding of mothers in prison.

Inspired by volunteering six years in women's prisons, Eidse resonated with the suffering and resilience of inmates separated from children. She, too, was separated from her family during some of the scariest moments of her life. A global nomad and third culture kid (one whose identity is drawn from multiple home and host cultures to create a unique third culture), she was born in the Belgian Congo and raised among worlds in Congo/Zaire, Canada and the U.S.

Eidse has co-edited two collections on growing up global: Unrooted Childhoods (a Hachette title and Princeton textbook) and Writing Out of Limbo (a bestseller for Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Inc., England). Eidse won the 2007 Florida Historical Society oral history award for Voices of the Apalachicola and published a biography of her parents, Light the World. 

Eidse recently retired from FLHealth after helping rollout COVID vaccines to the socially vulnerable. She taught literature and writing for over 20 years at Florida State, Keiser and Barry universities. Her books are available on Amazon. For more information: Faith Eidse, 850-345-106, faithleap7@gmail.com/