Today, I’m happy to be talking to Stephanie Elizondo Griest about her search for community in the process of writing her latest book: Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life. It was released on June 10. It’s a book that sees art as inheritance, dissent, devotion, revenge, celebration, and more. In the end, it asks: Is the all-encompassing quest to become a self-sustaining artist worth the sacrifices it often requires?
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Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a globetrotting author from the Texas/Mexico borderlands. Her six books include Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana; Mexican Enough; All the Agents and Saints; and Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life. Currently Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Elizondo Griest has performed in capacities ranging from a Moth storyteller to a literary ambassador for the U.S. State Department. Wanderlust has led her to 50 countries and 49 states. She recently endowed Testimonios Fronterizos, a research grant for student journalists from the borderlands enrolled at her alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism.
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