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Eliza Griswold is an award-winning American journalist and poet. 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.

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.

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

Griswold published "Wideawake Field", a book of poetry, on May 17, 2007.[1]A second book, The Tenth Parallel, is a travelogue about the regions of the world along the line of latitude where Christianity and Islam clash.

She is the daughter of Frank Griswold, the 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.

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