Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold (born February 9, 1973) is an award-winning American poet and journalist.

Life
Eliza Griswold graduated from Princeton University in 1995 and studied creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. She won the first Robert I. Friedman Prize in Investigative Journalism in 2004, for "In the Hiding Zone", about Pakistan's Waziristan Agency. She worked with Pakistani journalist Hayatullah Khan, who acted as her handler.

Griswold has written widely on the "war on terror".

Griswold published "Wideawake Field", a book of poetry, on May 17, 2007. A second book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, is a travelogue about the regions of the world along the line of latitude where Christianity and Islam clash. In 2011 Griswold was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for the The Tenth Parallel.

In 2011 in the New York Times Magazine, she published an investigative report, The Fracturing of Pennsylvania, which investigated the environmentally-questionable practices of fracking companies such as Range Resources.

She is a fellow at the New America Foundation and won a 2010 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a former Nieman Fellow, and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine.

Family
Eliza Griswold is the daughter of Frank Griswold, the 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

She married Christopher Allen on June 8, 1996.

Poetry

 * Wideawake Field. 2007.

Non-fiction

 * The Tenth Parallel. 2010.