Stephanie Elizondo Griest author biography, plus links to books by Stephanie Elizondo Griest.

Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a globetrotting author from South Texas. Her six books include: Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana; Mexican Enough; and All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands. She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Believer, BBC, VQR, and Oxford American. Her work has won a Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting, an International Latino Book Award, a PEN Southwest Book Award, and a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Prize. She currently serves as a professor of creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

This biography was last updated on 06/10/2025.

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