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 United States. 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: Ammonite (1993), Slow
River (1995), The Blue Place
(1998), Stay (2002), Always (2007), and Hild (2013).
Griffith is the co-editor of the Bending the Landscape series of
original short fiction. Her multimedia memoir, And Now We Are Going
to Have a Party: Liner Notes to a Writer’s Early Life, is a limited
collector’s edition. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in
an assortment of academic texts and a variety of journals,
including Nature, New Scientist, Los Angeles Review of
Books, and Out. She’s won the Washington State Book Award, the
Tiptree, Nebula, the World Fantasy Award, the Premio Italia, and
the Lambda Literary Award (six times), among many others.
Now a dual U.S./U.K. citizen, Nicola Griffith is married to writer
Kelley Eskridge. They live in Seattle, where Griffith is currently
lost in the seventh century, emerging occasionally to drink just
the right amount of beer and take enormous delight in
everything.
“A knockout . . . Strong, likable characters, a compelling story,
and a very interesting take on gender.”—Ursula K. Le Guin
“A powerful story of connection, allegiance, and obligation. Read
Nicola Griffith’s book—and keep an eye out for her name in the
future.”—Vonda N. McIntyre
“A marvelous blend of high adventure and mind-boggling social
speculation.”—Kim Stanley Robinson
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