Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Stephanie Elizondo Griest is author of the award-winning memoirs Around the Bloc and Mexican Enough . Assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she has lectured across the globe, including as US State Department literary ambassador to Venezuela in 2015, and has been Henry Luce Scholar in China, Hodder Fellow at Princeton, and winner of the Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Stephanie Elizondo Griest is author of the award-winning memoirs Around the Bloc and Mexican Enough . Assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she has lectured across the globe, including as US State Department literary ambassador to Venezuela in 2015, and has been Henry Luce Scholar in China, Hodder Fellow at Princeton, and winner of the Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. See less