Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a globetrotting writer from the Texas-Mexico borderlands. Her six books include Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana; Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlines; and All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands. She has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Believer, BBC, Virginia Quarterly Review, 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 two Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards. Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she has performed as both a Moth storyteller and as a literary ambassador for the US State Department.
Stephanie joins the Book Festival to discuss her book Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life.
