A globetrotting author and educator.
Stephanie Elizondo Griest is the author of the award-winning travel memoirs Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana and Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines, the best-selling guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should Go, and the forthcoming All the Agents & Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands. As a national correspondent for The Odyssey, she once drove 45,000 miles across America, documenting its history. She has won a Hodder Fellowship to Princeton, a Viebranz Professorship to St. Lawrence University, the Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting, and a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Prize. A renowned speaker, Stephanie has taught and performed around the globe, and is currently Assistant Professor and Margaret R. Shuping Fellow of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Learn more about Stephanie »
Stephanie's Books
Recent Blog Posts
-
May Day Update
Happy International Workers’ Day! Hard to believe it’s been a year since my last blog post. I recently joined... -
Music Without Borders
Last December, I organized a binational concert at the San Diego/Tijuana border wall featuring violinist Jennifer... -
Art Against The Wall
Happy Spring, everybody! I am thrilled to share that my story about artists' response to the U.S./Mexico border wall...