Stephanie Elizondo Griest
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Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a globe-trotting author from South Texas. Her books include the memoirs Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana (Villard/Random House, 2004); Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines (Washington Square Press/Simon & Schuster, 2008); All the Agents & Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands (UNC Press, 2017); and Art Above Everything: One Woman's Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life (Beacon Press, 2025). She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Believer, Oxford American, and VQR. Awards include a Henry Luce Scholarship to China, a Hodder fellowship at Princeton University, and the Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting. A renowned public speaker, she is currently Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
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