A globetrotting author, educator, and activist.
Stephanie Elizondo Griest has mingled with the Russian Mafia, polished Chinese propaganda, and danced with Cuban rumba queens. These adventures inspired her award-winning memoirs Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana; Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines; and the guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should Go. As a national correspondent for The Odyssey, she once drove 45,000 miles across America in a Honda Hatchback named Bertha. She has won a Hodder Fellowship to Princeton, a 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 the 2012-2013 Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at St. Lawrence University. In Fall 2013, she will become Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Learn more about Stephanie »
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Dizzy in Karachi
I first learned of Maliha Masood’s work while editing Best Women’s Travel Writing back in 2010. Tim Leffel of... -
Spring Update
Today marks the spring equinox, but it’s still snowing like mad up here in the North Country. Never have I spent so... -
48 Hours in Quebec City
Up here in the North Country, the surest sign that there will, in fact, be an end to the long, dark months of subzero...