Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold is an American poet and journalist whose work spans literary nonfiction, poetry, and foreign reporting. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She was educated at Princeton University and Oxford University. Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America (2018) followed a rural Pennsylvania family fighting the environmental and health consequences of shale gas drilling. It won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The book combined her skills as a poet and reporter, producing a work of deep empathy and forensic precision about the costs of the energy boom. Griswold's poetry collection Wideawake Field (2007) and her translation of oral Pashto poems, I Am the Messenger (2014), reflect her work in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Her earlier book The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam (2010) examined religious conflict in Africa and Asia.