Nicola Griffith
Nicola Griffith is a native of Yorkshire, England, where
she earned her beer money teaching women's
self-defense, fronting a band, and arm-wrestling in
bars, before discovering writing and moving to the US.
Her immigration case was a fight and ended up making
new law: the State Department declared it to be "in the
National Interest" for her to live and work in this
country. This didn't thrill the more conservative
powerbrokers, and she ended up on the front page of
the Wall Street Journal, where her case was used as an
example of the country's declining moral standards.
In 1993 a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis slowed her
down a bit, and she concentrated on writing. Her
novels are Ammonite (1993, Del Rey/Ballantine), Slow
River (1995, Del Rey/Ballantine), The Blue Place, (1998,
Avon/Morrow), and Stay (forthcoming from Nan A.
Talese/Doubleday). She is the co-editor editor of the
Bending the Landscape series of original short fiction
published by Overlook.
Her non-fiction has appeared in
a variety of print and web journals, including OUT,
Nature, and Paradoxa: The Journal of World Literary
Genres. Her awards include the James Tiptree, Jr.,
Memorial Award, the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy
Award, and the Lambda Literary Award (five times, in
three different categories). She lives in Seattle with her
partner, writer Kelley Eskridge, and takes enormous
delight in everything.
photo and bio used with friendly permission of the author. copyright © Nicola Griffith
Books:
Ammonite
Bending the Landscape
Author's Homepage:
http://www.nicolagriffith.com
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