Nicola Griffith

Nicola Griffith is a native of Yorkshire, England, now a dual US/UK citizen. Author of nine novels (Ammonite, Slow River, The Blue Place, Stay, Always, Hild, So Lucky, Spear and Menewood) and a multi-media memoir (And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner notes to a writer’s early life).

Co-editor of the Bending the Landscape series of original queer f/sf/h stories. Essayist. Teacher. Blogger. Founder and co-host of #criplit. Winner of two (2) Washington State Book Award, the Societyof Authors’ ADCI Literary Prize, the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize, the Nebula, Tiptree, World Fantasy Awards, and six (6) Lambda Literary Awards. She holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University, is a wheelchair martial artist, married to writer Kelley Eskridge, and lives in Seattle.