Eliza Griswold

Senior Research Fellow
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Eliza Griswold received a 2011 Anthony J. Lukas prize for her New York Times Bestselling Book The Tenth Parallel. She also received a 2010 Rome Prize from The American Academy in Rome for her poetry. Having won awards for both her non-fiction and her poems, she is currently a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, she reports on religion, conflict and human rights. Her first book of poems, Wideawake Field, was published in 2007 by Farrar Straus Giroux and The Tenth Parallel, an examination of Christianity and Islam in Africa and Asia, also published by FSG, was released in the fall of 2010. Her reportage and poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Harpers, The New Republic, among many others.

Publications

Article | Jan 27, 2012 | The New York Times
Article | Nov 20, 2011 | The New York Times Magazine
Article | Oct 12, 2011 | The Atlantic
Article | Oct 7, 2011 | The Daily Beast
Article | Aug 28, 2011 | Newsweek
Article | Aug 27, 2011 | New York Magazine
Article | Aug 27, 2011 | New York Magazine
Article | Aug 22, 2011 | The Daily Beast
Article | Jul 18, 2011 | The Daily Beast
Article | Jul 3, 2011 | The Daily Beast

Events

Event | Oct 12, 2011 | New York
Event | May 19, 2010 | Washington
Event | Oct 10, 2008

Press

In the News Item | Oct 8, 2011 | The Daily Beast
In the News Item | Aug 16, 2011 | New Hampshire Public Radio
In the News Item | Jul 8, 2011 | The New York Times
In the News Item | Apr 22, 2011 | The Guardian (London)
In the News Item | Apr 7, 2011 | The New York Times
In the News Item | Mar 17, 2011 | The National (UAE)

Areas of Expertise

Africa, Human Rights, Religion