Nicola Griffith
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| Born: | 30 September, 1960 Yorkshire, England |
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| Occupation: | Novelist, short story author, essayist |
| Nationality: | England |
| Writing period: | 1987 - |
| Genres: | Fantasy, Science fiction, Crime fiction |
| Debut works: | Short fiction: An Other Winter's Tale (1987) Novel: Ammonite (1993) Essay: Read This (The New York Review of Science Fiction, November 1992) |
| Influences: | Isaac Asimov, David Eddings, Alan Garner, Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Ursula K. Le Guin, C.S. Lewis, Vonda McIntyre, Joanna Russ, Robert Silverberg, Cordwainer Smith, E.E. Smith, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joan D. Vinge, Kate Wilhelm |
| Website: | www.nicolagriffith.com |
Nicola Griffith (born 30 September, 1960 in Yorkshire, England) is a British science fiction author, editor and essayist. Griffith is a 1988 alum of the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction writing workshop and has won a Nebula Award, the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, the World Fantasy Award and five Lambda Literary Awards.
Personal life
Nicola Griffith was born in Yorkshire, England, the fourth of five sisters. The youngest, Helena, died in a police-chase in Australia in 1988, and one of her older sisters, Carolyn, died in 2001. Griffith has stated in interviews that grief and rage over her sisters' deaths have played a large part in the writing process for her novels.
Griffith is currently living with her partner, writer Kelley Eskridge, in Seattle, in the United States.
Career
Nicola Griffith published her first novel Ammonite in 1993, which won both the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the Lambda Award. Her second novel, Slow River (1994), won the Nebula Award, for best novel, and another Lambda.
Together with Stephen Pagel, Griffith has edited a series of three anthologies, Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (1997), Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (1998) and Bending the Landscape: Horror (2001). These explore gay and lesbian issues in fantastic settings.
The Blue Place (1998), Stay (2002), and Always (2007) are crime novels. Her collection of stories, With Her Body (2004) is science fiction and fantasy.
Bibliography
Novels
- Ammonite (1993)
- Slow River (1995)
- The Blue Place (1998)
- Stay (2002)
- Always (2007)
Anthologies
- Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (1997, with Stephen Pagel)
- Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (1998, with Stephen Pagel)
- Bending the Landscape: Horror (2001, with Stephen Pagel)
Short fiction
- An Other Winter's Tale (1987)
- Mirrors and Burnstone (1988)
- The Other (1989)
- We Have Met the Alien (1990)
- The Voyage South (1990)
- Down the Path of the Sun (1990)
- Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese (1991)
- Wearing My Skin (1991)
- Touching Fire (1993)
- Yaguara (1994)
- A Troll Story (2000)
- With Her Body (2004, a collection containing Touching Fire, Songs of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese, and Yaguara)
External links
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