• Russian (limited working proficiency) • Spanish (professional proficiency)
Distinctions:
• 2012-2013 Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, St. Lawrence University • 2005-2006 Hodder Fellow, Princeton University • 2004-present Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute • 1997-1998 Henry Luce Scholar, Beijing, China
Recent Publications:
• 2016 "The Disciplined Utopia," The Believer, Spring 2016 (forthcoming April)
• 2016 The New River, Winter 2015, http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/ 15Winter/conjunctions/conjunctions-Griest-Curtis.html
• 2016 Excerpt of “No Man Nomad No More,” Chapel Hill Magazine’s 2016 Visitors
• 2016 and Relocation Guide, pages 18-20, Winter 2015
• 2016 “Release,” Conjunctions: Experiments in Collaboration (with Jennifer Curtis),
• 2016 “Music Without Borders,” Oxford American online, oxfordamerican.org
• 2015 institute.org/issues/volume-27-number-3-winter-2014/three-nations-crossing/
• 2015 Writers, Marianne Gingher, ed., University of North Carolina Press, 2015, pages 114-124
• 2015 eds., Travelers’ Tales, 2015, pages 120-128
• 2015 “Art Against the Wall,” Oxford American, Spring 2015, pages 62-75
• 2015 “Three Nations Crossing,” Witness, Winter 2014, http://witness.blackmountain-
• 2015 “No Man Nomad No More,” Amazing Place: What North Carolina Means To
• 2015 Excerpt of “No Man Nomad No More,” Carolina Arts & Sciences Magazine,
• 2015 Spring 2015
• 2015 “Code 500,” Best Travel Writing, Volume X, James O’Reilly and Larry Habegger,
• 2014 DeLeon, ed., University of Nebraska Press, 2014, pages 68-72.
• 2014 Revealing Family, Joy Castro, ed., University of Nebraska Press, 2013, pages 177-181
• 2014 “Code 500,” The Oxford American, Fall 2013, pages 35-37
• 2014 “Pancakes at 2 a.m.,” Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education, Jennifer
• 2014 “The Seed Book,” Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of
• 2008 Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines (Washington Square Press/Simon & Schuster, 2008)
• 2004 Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana (Villard/Random House, 2004)
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