Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a travel writer from the Texas-Mexico borderlands whose research has taken her to more than 50 countries. Her six books include: AROUND THE BLOC: MY LIFE IN MOSCOW, BEIJING, AND HAVANA (Villard/Random House); MEXICAN ENOUGH (Washington Square Press/Simon & Schuster); ALL THE AGENTS AND SAINTS: DISPATCHES FROM THE U.S. BORDERLANDS (UNC Press); and ART ABOVE EVERYTHING: ONE WOMAN’S GLOBAL EXPLORATION OF THE JOYS AND TORMENTS OF A CREATIVE LIFE (Beacon Press). She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Believer, BBC, VQR, and Oxford American. Her work has won a Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting, an International Latino Book Award, a PEN Southwest Book Award, and two Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism prizes. Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, she has performed as both a Moth storyteller and as a literary ambassador for the U.S. State Department. Visit her @SElizondoGriest and www.StephanieElizondoGriest.com.