Eliza Griswold, a Guggenheim fellow, is the author of a collection of poems, "Wideawake Field" (FSG, 2007) and a nonfiction book, "The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam" (FSG, 2010), a "New York Times" bestseller that was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Prize. She has worked with Seamus Murphy in Africa and Asia for more than a decade. She lives in New York City.