april, 2018

Event Details
Join Stephanie Elizondo Griest for a reading and discussion of her latest book, All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands. In All The Agents and Saints, Elizondo Griest
Event Details

All the Agents and Saints
by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
The University of North Carolina Press (2017)
Join Stephanie Elizondo Griest for a reading and discussion of her latest book, All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands.
In All The Agents and Saints, Elizondo Griest weaves seven years of stories into a meditation on the existential impact of international borderlines by illuminating the spaces in between.
Stephanie Elizondo Griest is the award-winning author of three travel memoirs: 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; as well as the best-selling guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should Go. As a national correspondent for The Odyssey, she once drove 45,000 miles across America, documenting its history. She has won a Hodder Fellowship to Princeton, a Viebranz Professorship to St. Lawrence University, the Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting, and a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Prize. A renowned speaker, Stephanie has taught and performed around the globe, and is currently Assistant Professor and Margaret R. Shuping Fellow of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Time
(Wednesday) 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas