Eliza Griswold is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, translator, and poet. As director of the Program in Journalism at Princeton University, she oversees the undergraduate program, develops new curricular offerings, and collaborates with campus partners in planning University-wide programs and events.
Griswold has been a contributing writer for The New Yorker for more than two decades, where she has extensively covered religion, politics, and the environment. She has written and translated several books of nonfiction and poetry, including “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2019; “I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan,” which she translated to English from Pashto; and a recent book of poems, “If Men, Then.” Her latest book, “Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church,” was named a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
She has received prestigious fellowships from Harvard University, Harvard Divinity School, the New America Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She previously served as a distinguished writer in residence at New York University. Recognized across disciplines, Griswold has been awarded top prizes in various fields, including the Rome Prize in Poetry by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the J. Anthony Lukas Prize for nonfiction, and a PEN award for translation.
An alumna of Princeton, Griswold earned a bachelor of arts in English from the University in 1995. She previously taught in the Program in Journalism as a Ferris Visiting Professor in 2014-15.
