eidse ph. d.

Faith Eidse was inspired to write ＂Healing Falls＂ after volunteering six years in women’s prisons, and resonating with mothers separated from children. She, too, was separated from family during revolution in Congo, and while raised in Congo, Canada and the U.S. She co-edited a Hachette title, ＂Unrooted Childhoods＂ (now a Princeton textbook), and ＂Writing Out of Limbo.＂ Eidse won an oral history award for ＂Voices of the Apalachicola,＂ the Kingsbury Award for her memoir-writing, and published a biography of her Canadian linguist and medical missionary parents, ＂Light the World.＂ She is adjunct English prof at Barry University and senior editor at FLHealth, where her ＂How to Write＂ series is video-conferenced statewide.