Stephanie Elizondo Griest
@sgriest.bsky.social
Traveling Tejana and author of All the Agents and Saints, Mexican Enough, Around the Bloc, and Art Above Everything.
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UNC College of Arts and Sciences did a great profile about @beaconpress.bsky.social author @sgriest.bsky.social and her latest book ART ABOVE EVERYTHING. Learn more about this "art monk" and her quest to find community below!
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Finding her (artistic) congregation - College of Arts and Sciences
Globe-trotting author Stephanie Elizondo Griest journeyed to 12 countries to interview 70 women artists about the trials and triumphs of pursuing art above everything else.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
UNC College of Arts and Sciences did a great profile about @beaconpress.bsky.social author @sgriest.bsky.social and her latest book ART ABOVE EVERYTHING. Learn more about this "art monk" and her quest to find community below!
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Women in the arts are often underrepresented and underpaid. @sgriest.bsky.social went on a 10-year journey to ask them how and why they choose the artist’s path despite the odds. @embodiedwunc.bsky.social
What It Takes To Make Art Your Life
One artist shares her decade-long journey across the globe to figure out if a life dedicated to art is worth the struggle.
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September 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Women in the arts are often underrepresented and underpaid. @sgriest.bsky.social went on a 10-year journey to ask them how and why they choose the artist’s path despite the odds. @embodiedwunc.bsky.social
Such an honor to be in conversation with Anita Rao!
NEW: Is art worth the sacrifice it requires? 🎨
Writer @sgriest.bsky.social has been asking this question since the early days of her career. "My love for what I do made my life logistically a nightmare, or impossible!" Stephanie hustled for decades--putting aside life milestones to write.
Writer @sgriest.bsky.social has been asking this question since the early days of her career. "My love for what I do made my life logistically a nightmare, or impossible!" Stephanie hustled for decades--putting aside life milestones to write.
September 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Such an honor to be in conversation with Anita Rao!
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India. Rwanda. Romania. Iceland. The US. Art monks are everywhere, creating art against all odds and despite the odds. @sgriest.bsky.social @texasstandard.bsky.social
‘Artists always find a way’: Book explores challenges faced by women pursuing creative lives
Stephanie Elizondo Griest traveled to 12 countries over the course of a decade in a global search for 'art monks.'
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July 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
India. Rwanda. Romania. Iceland. The US. Art monks are everywhere, creating art against all odds and despite the odds. @sgriest.bsky.social @texasstandard.bsky.social
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In ART ABOVE EVERYTHING, @sgriest.bsky.social wanted to explore what it means to be a woman “when our basic freedoms are being undermined or attacked throughout much of the world, particularly here at home. How can our art set us free?”
Interview with Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of “Art Above Everything,” and Rey M. Rodríguez — CHAPTER HOUSE JOURNAL
Most Institute of American Indian Arts students, teachers, and staff do what they do because they have a calling, despite having no idea what the outcome will be. Stephanie Elizondo Griest, in…
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July 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
In ART ABOVE EVERYTHING, @sgriest.bsky.social wanted to explore what it means to be a woman “when our basic freedoms are being undermined or attacked throughout much of the world, particularly here at home. How can our art set us free?”
Gracias Lit Hub!
“We are researching and writing the matter of our lives.” Stephanie Elizondo Griest on life as an “art monk.”
The Agonies and Ecstasies of a Slow Book Project
Slow books. Long-haulers. Glacial-pacers. Forever-endeavors. Determine the quickest, most efficient way of writing a book, and then do the opposite: That’s me. Besides sleeping, there is no activit…
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June 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Gracias Lit Hub!
Gracias a ti, Sarah! It was a joy to talk with you.
thank you to Carrboro writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest for sharing her new book with me! I found it fresh, vulnerable, and generous. (@indyweek.bsky.social)
In “Art Above Everything,” Stephanie Elizondo Griest Offers a New Kind of Road Manual
Stephanie Elizondo Griest has written a soulful new book that takes a big question across the globe: Is art worth the sacrifice it requires?
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June 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Gracias a ti, Sarah! It was a joy to talk with you.
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@sgriest.bsky.social’s goal as a writer is to recreate as much humanity-awe on the page as possible. Humanity-awe shines through in each chapter in ART ABOVE EVERYTHING. 🤩 @southrevbooks.bsky.social
The Artist Monks in “Art Above Everything”: A Conversation with Stephanie Elizondo Griest
A conversation with Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of “Art Above Everything.”
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June 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
@sgriest.bsky.social’s goal as a writer is to recreate as much humanity-awe on the page as possible. Humanity-awe shines through in each chapter in ART ABOVE EVERYTHING. 🤩 @southrevbooks.bsky.social
An honor to write about the man who ignited my love for art (my dad) for my favorite publication (Texas Observer) 💗
In books, from @sgriest.bsky.social: "My dad drummed for presidents once. He drummed for admirals and ambassadors, movie stars and ministers. ... He drummed in nightclubs from Amsterdam to Yokosuka."
Book Excerpt: Art Is Immortality
Suddenly, Analina dips her head. Grief seems on the verge of overwhelming her—until something visibly intervenes…
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June 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
An honor to write about the man who ignited my love for art (my dad) for my favorite publication (Texas Observer) 💗
Thank you to infinity, Beacon Press, for sparking this decade-long endeavor to life!
Happy #PubDay, @sgriest.bsky.social! 🖌️
ART ABOVE EVERYTHING, her global exploration of queer, BIPOC, and women artists who discuss the gifts, costs, and redemptive power of pursuing a creative life, is “a deep, moving, radical book.” — @melissafebos.bsky.social buff.ly/y1mJfCw
ART ABOVE EVERYTHING, her global exploration of queer, BIPOC, and women artists who discuss the gifts, costs, and redemptive power of pursuing a creative life, is “a deep, moving, radical book.” — @melissafebos.bsky.social buff.ly/y1mJfCw
June 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Thank you to infinity, Beacon Press, for sparking this decade-long endeavor to life!
Friends! ART ABOVE EVERYTHING drops next Tuesday. Among the featured artists is the one whose work has impacted me more than any other: author #SandraCisneros. Here is what she said about taking the “path of most resistance” by pursuing a life devoted to art….
June 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Friends! ART ABOVE EVERYTHING drops next Tuesday. Among the featured artists is the one whose work has impacted me more than any other: author #SandraCisneros. Here is what she said about taking the “path of most resistance” by pursuing a life devoted to art….
Friends! Come hear the stories of global women who have placed art at the core of their existence. I'll be touring for the rest of the year, with these confirmed stops:
May 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Friends! Come hear the stories of global women who have placed art at the core of their existence. I'll be touring for the rest of the year, with these confirmed stops:
🧵/4: That’s when I started thinking of myself as an #ArtMonk. Finding myself single & childless on my 40th birthday, I decided that if I was to keep pursuing this ascetic path, I needed a congregation for company. So, I sent out some queries & invested in plane tickets. This book is the result.
May 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🧵/4: That’s when I started thinking of myself as an #ArtMonk. Finding myself single & childless on my 40th birthday, I decided that if I was to keep pursuing this ascetic path, I needed a congregation for company. So, I sent out some queries & invested in plane tickets. This book is the result.
🧵/3: Just as those hermits had taken vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience to serve God, I had renounced a 401K and a potential spouse to obediently serve a muse. They reached their exalted state through the connections forged in prayer; I, through the communal joy of performance....
May 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
🧵/3: Just as those hermits had taken vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience to serve God, I had renounced a 401K and a potential spouse to obediently serve a muse. They reached their exalted state through the connections forged in prayer; I, through the communal joy of performance....
🧵2: Two canonized hermits lived on the premises. It mystified me, how they spent almost the entirety of their days in their cabins, praying for the souls of the world. Gradually, though, it occurred to me that my own devotional act of writing 12 hours a day in my own cabin wasn’t far removed.
May 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🧵2: Two canonized hermits lived on the premises. It mystified me, how they spent almost the entirety of their days in their cabins, praying for the souls of the world. Gradually, though, it occurred to me that my own devotional act of writing 12 hours a day in my own cabin wasn’t far removed.
A month away from launching #ArtAboveEverything, it feels time to share the genesis of my book’s subject: Art monks. 🧵/1
Eighteen years ago, I did a series of writing residencies in a Catholic house of prayer in South Texas that required guests to take a vow of silence during their stay....
Eighteen years ago, I did a series of writing residencies in a Catholic house of prayer in South Texas that required guests to take a vow of silence during their stay....
May 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A month away from launching #ArtAboveEverything, it feels time to share the genesis of my book’s subject: Art monks. 🧵/1
Eighteen years ago, I did a series of writing residencies in a Catholic house of prayer in South Texas that required guests to take a vow of silence during their stay....
Eighteen years ago, I did a series of writing residencies in a Catholic house of prayer in South Texas that required guests to take a vow of silence during their stay....
Hola everybody! Here is a chance for a free copy of 10 years of labor and love 💗
🚨GIVEAWAY ALERT!🚨
@sgriest.bsky.social interviews women around the world about the gifts, costs, and redemptive power of a creative life in ART ABOVE EVERYTHING. Enter our Goodreads giveaway by June 10 for a chance to win a copy!
@sgriest.bsky.social interviews women around the world about the gifts, costs, and redemptive power of a creative life in ART ABOVE EVERYTHING. Enter our Goodreads giveaway by June 10 for a chance to win a copy!
Book giveaway for Art Above Everything: One Woman's Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life by Stephanie Elizondo Griest Apr 09-May 08, 2025
Enter to win one of 25 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Apr 09-May 08, 2025. Enter for a chance to win 1 of 25 first edition copies of Art Abov...
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April 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Hola everybody! Here is a chance for a free copy of 10 years of labor and love 💗
I am so looking forward to this conversation!
February 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I am so looking forward to this conversation!
North Carolina! Soul-balm is heading our way. Please join us at UNC’s Donovan Lounge tomorrow at 4:30 for a reading-performance-summoning-of-the-spirit by Tim Z. Hernandez. His latest book of creative nonfiction, THEY CALL YOU BACK, is the most riveting work I have read in recent memory. Join us!
February 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
North Carolina! Soul-balm is heading our way. Please join us at UNC’s Donovan Lounge tomorrow at 4:30 for a reading-performance-summoning-of-the-spirit by Tim Z. Hernandez. His latest book of creative nonfiction, THEY CALL YOU BACK, is the most riveting work I have read in recent memory. Join us!
The new book I am most excited to read this year!
Books as medicine. Books as resistance. The galleys of SO MANY STARS have arrived and the love & gratitude I feel for the trans BIPOC elders whose voices are gathered here is boundless. Their voices nourish me so much & I hope they’ll nourish you too. ❤️🏳️⚧️
February 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The new book I am most excited to read this year!
Hola everybody! Finally made the migration over from X. Hope you are finding peace and community amidst the chaos. Thank you for all you do 🙏🏽💗
January 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Hola everybody! Finally made the migration over from X. Hope you are finding peace and community amidst the chaos. Thank you for all you do 🙏🏽💗