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Associate Professor and Margaret Shuping Fellow of Creative Nonfiction
Creative Writing Program, Department of English & Comparative Literature
A Chicana from South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest is the author of three travel memoirs that explore Latina/o cultural identity: 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, Washington Post, Oxford American, VQR, and The Believer, and her reporting has won a Richard Margolis Award for Social Justice. Here at UNC-Chapel Hill, she teaches Intro and Advanced Creative Nonfiction, Travel Writing, and Memoir as Witness. Visit her website at StephanieElizondoGriest.com.