Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold
Born	(1973-02-09) February 9, 1973
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Princeton University
Occupation(s)	Journalist, Poet

Eliza Griswold (born February 9, 1973) is an American journalist and poet. She was a fellow at the New America Foundation from 2008 to 2010 and won a 2010 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a former Nieman Fellow, and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine.

Life and work

Eliza Griswold graduated from Princeton University in 1995 and studied creative writing at Johns Hopkins University.She won the first Robert I. Friedman Prize in Investigative Journalism in 2004, for "In the Hiding Zone", about Pakistan's Waziristan Agency. She worked with Pakistani journalist Hayatullah Khan, who acted as her handler.

Griswold has written widely on the "war on terror".

Griswold published "Wideawake Field", a book of poetry, on May 17, 2007. A second book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, is a travelogue about the regions of the world along the line of latitude where Christianity and Islam clash. In 2011 Griswold was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for the The Tenth Parallel. She was a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow.

In 2011 in the New York Times Magazine, she published an investigative report, The Fracturing of Pennsylvania, which investigated the environmentally-questionable practices of fracking companies such as Range Resources. In 2015, for the NYTimes Magazine she wrote about the demise of Christianity in the Mideast.

Griswold was a 2014 Ferris Professor at Princeton University and currently teaches at Columbia University.

In 2015, Griswold's translation from the Pashto of I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

Family

Eliza Griswold is the daughter of Frank Griswold, the 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. She married Christopher Allen on June 8, 1996.

Publications

Books

• I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan. Macmillan. 1 April 2014. ISBN 978-0374191870.
• The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 17 August 2010. ISBN 978-1-4299-7966-5.
• Wideawake Field: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2007. ISBN 9780374299309.; 29 April 2008, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 978-0-374-53130-0
• A Night Full of Low Stars, Johns Hopkins University, 1997

Articles

• Eliza Griswold (January 23, 2005). "The Next Islamist Revolution?". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2007-11-26.
• Eliza Griswold (2003-05-05). "The Kurds Take a City". The Nation. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
• Eliza Griswold (April 14, 2003). "With the Kurds". The Nation. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
• Eliza Griswold (December 2010). "In the Land of Sheba: A Pilgrimage to Ethiopia (series)". Slate. Retrieved 2010-12-19.
• Eliza Griswold (November 2011). "The Fracturing of Pennsylvania". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
• Eliza Griswold (June 13, 2014). "Can General Linder's Special Operations Forces Stop the Next Terrorist Threat?". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2014-09-28.

External links

• Official website
• "Postcards from Karachi - A Documentary with Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics"
• Griswold profile at the New America Foundation
• Smithsonian interview of Griswold
• Video interview/discussion with Griswold by Robert Wright on Bloggingheads.tv
• Macmillan Speakers Bureau profile