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. 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. 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. A former Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard, Griswold is currently a senior fellow at the New American Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute.

BY ELIZA GRISWOLD