ELIZABETH GILBERT is an award-winning magazine journalist and currently writer-at-large for GQ. She is the author of Stern Men and Pilgrims, a short-story collection, that was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. Her work has been published in Harper's Bazaar, Spin, and the New York Times.