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 the best-selling guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should Go (Travelers’ Tales, 2007). She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Believer, Oxford American, and VQR, and she edited the anthology Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010. As a national correspondent for The Odyssey, she once drove 45,000 miles across the United States in a Honda Hatchback named Bertha. 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 Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Visit her website at StephanieElizondoGriest.com.
