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Eliza Griswold, a Guggenheim fellow, is the author of a collection of poems, Wideawake Field (FSG, 2007), and a nonfiction book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (FSG, 2010), a New York Times bestseller that was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Prize. Welcome back. The tenth parallel—the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator—is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide. Griswold’s language is forthright and intimate as she steers between the chaos of a tumultuous inner world and an external landscape littered with SUVs, CBD oil, and go bags, talismans of our time. Eliza Griswold is the author of The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, which won the 2011 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. A collection of poets and articles exploring Asian American culture. Something went wrong. This Militant Nigerian Group Is Holding Nearly 200 Teenage Girls Hostage, Harar, Home of Haile Selassie and the Hyena Man, Advice From the Guardian of the Ark of the Covenant. Author of AMITY & PROSPERITY. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Her earlier non-fiction book. Writer, journalist and social commentator ELIZA GRISWOLD won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, and writes on religion, politics, and the environment for The New Yorker. An award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years traveling between the equator and the tenth parallel: in Nigeria, the Sudan, and Somalia, and in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. 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View the profiles of people named Eliza Griswold. You will hear from one of our agents in the next 24 hours. 4 . Her 2011 non-fiction book, The Tenth Parallel, a New York Times Bestseller, was awarded the Lukas Prize. Above all, she makes clear that, for the people she writes about, one's sense of God is shaped by one's place on earth; along the tenth parallel, faith is geographic and demographic. —October. Eliza Griswold is a poet and reporter whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and the New Republic. HWA.defPageSize : "ALL"}}, following the stories that need to be told, 2019-2020 new releases from bestselling authors make for a fantastic program, Episode 9: The Quiet Horror, with Eliza Griswold Eliza Griswold is an American journalist and poet. All rights reserved. There's a problem loading this menu right now. ), ( A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and ProsperityIf Men, Then, Eliza Griswold’s second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionIn Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist.Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking boom comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Create a, A Sample of the Groups That Have Hosted Eliza Griswold, Writer, journalist and social commentator. Follow to get new release updates and improved recommendations. In 2010, Griswold won the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome for her poetry, and in 2011, The Tenth Parallel received the Anthony J. Lukas award. Eliza Griswold, a journalist and poet, traveled to Afghanistan to learn more about daily life there through the modern exchange of poetry. Eliza Griswold is the author, most recently, of If Men, Then, her second book of poems, and of Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, in 2019. Her books include the poetry collection Wideawake Field (2007) and the non-fiction title The Tenth Parallel (2010), which examines Christianity and Islam in Asia and Africa. “We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. The poems in this fierce debut are an attempt to record what matters. Her translations of Afghan women’s folk poems, I Am the Beggar of the World, was awarded the 2015 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. ). The chairs have come in and the crisp yellow thwock of the ball being hit says somehow, now that it's fall, I'm a memory of myself. Hardcover Author of AMITY & PROSPERITY. Please send me availability & fees for Eliza Griswold. An event with Eliza delivers the gravitas for meaningful conversation and insights- after all, she is a Pulitzer Prize winner with fellowships at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New America Foundation, among others. More than half of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims live along the tenth parallel; so do sixty percent of the world's 2 billion Christians. A contributing writer for The New Yorker since 2003, she has also written and translated four books of nonfiction and poetry. Where Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Meet in Africa, Cannibalism Is Just the Latest Atrocity in the Struggles Between Hema and Lendu, I Am the Beggar of the World: Contemporary Landays from Afghanistan. All contents © 2020 The Slate Group LLC. And her, work explores issues of social justice, religion, politics and the environment, abroad and at home in America, with tremendous detail, humanity and insight. 168 . Eliza Griswold's most recent book is I Am the Beggar of the World: Contemporary Landays from Afghanistan. In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Eliza Griswold Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University. Her poems and reportage have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Atlantic, among many others. Eliza Griswold is an American journalist and poet. Richard Holbrooke knew that relationships were the building blocks of diplomacy. 79 And you'll never see this message again. An award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years traveling between the equator and the tenth parallel: in Nigeria, the Sudan, and Somalia, and in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Slate relies on advertising to support our journalism. She was recently awarded a PEN prize for her 2014 book, I Am The Beggar of the World which traces the secret life of women and poetry in Afghanistan. Drawing on seven years of immersive reporting, Griswold reveals what happens when an imperiled town faces a crisis of values, and a family wagers everything on an improbable quest for justice. If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker. Eliza Griswold Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University. Eliza Griswold is a poet and journalist who works on issues of social justice, religion, politics and the environment abroad and at home in America. - Now That's a Great Story Podcast, Eliza Griswold You have successfully shared a biography of Kofi Annan. which traces the secret life of women and poetry in Afghanistan. Greater New York City Area 26 connections Alternately searing and hopeful, funny and fraught, the poems explore the world’s fracturing through the collapse of the ego, embodied in a character named “I”—a soul attempting to wrestle with itself in the face of an unfolding tragedy. A graduate of Princeton, she has held fellowships at Harvard University, New America, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2010.