Stephanie Elizondo Griest

About

Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a native of South Texas and the author of Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana and Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines. She teaches creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and blogs at www.mexicanenough.com. Her next book covers borderlands north and south.

Articles

Issue 82, Fall 2013

Code 500

“This is the American dream,” Davila says, spreading his arms wide, as if to signal beyond the wood-paneled room, “and this is where it stops, right here.” He thumps the binder with his forefinger.

By Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Issue 88, Spring 2015

Art Against the Wall

Border walls have a history of serving as public art spaces.

By Stephanie Elizondo Griest

MUSIC WITHOUT BORDERS

The voices of Norma Navarrete and Ana Laura Rojas personified the sadness of Jennifer Curtis’s violin as she arpeggiated the loss of human movement through her chord progressions. Impervious to any...

By Stephanie Elizondo Griest