Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Author

Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a globe-trotting author from the Texas-Mexico borderlands. Her six books include the award-winning travel 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 and 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, 2025). Her best-selling guidebook, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go, won Gold Prize for Best Travel Book in the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition as well as the International Latino Book Awards. She has served as a professor of creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill since 2013. Previous appointments include Viebranz Professor of Creative Writing at St. Lawrence University and Hodder Fellow at Princeton.