About the Author

Stephanie Elizondo Griest is the author of Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go, and Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana. Her work has appeared in many major publications, including numerous Travelers' Tales collections. She won the 2007 Richard J. Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting and was inducted into PEN in 2008.