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), Slow River (1995), The Blue Place, (1998), Stay (2002), and Always. She is the co-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 The Huffington Post. Her awards include the James Tiptree, Jr., Memorial Award, the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Lambda Literary Award (five times). Her latest book is a memoir, And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner Notes to a Writer's Early Life. She lives in Seattle with her partner, writer Kelley Eskridge, and takes enormous delight in everything.

Interviews

Curve Magazine, 2008
Write for Your Rights
Nicola Griffith is officially here "in the National Interest"...

The Beat, 2007
Self-defense
Self-defense isn't just a skill, it's a worldview...

Ambling Along the Aqueduct, 2007
Process Porn
It appalls me, too, when I stop to think about it...

To the Best of Our Knowledge, 2007
Queer Culture
Nicola Griffith wanted to fight back. A lesbian activist well-versed in the martial arts, Griffith knew she had the moves.

Seattlest, 2007
Seattle
Perhaps it's because Kelley and I moved two years ago from Wallingford to Broadview...

Pinky's Paperhaus, 2007
Where is it shelved?
A podcast about genre, art, and changing the world.

LBC, 2007
LitBlog Co-op
So why don't more people read about Aud? Girl cooties...

Strange Horizons, 2003
Interview: Nicola Griffith
Rage. That's how it began. I was so angry I was afraid to leave the house.

Booksense Interview, 2002
Very Interesting People
Nicola talks about focus, vulnerability, loss, and growing up, as it applies to her fascinating fourth novel, Stay

Nan A. Talese, 2002
Featured Author
A conversation with Nicola Griffith about her novel Stay

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2002
Brave new words
Life's hard lessons: Nicola Griffith talks to John Marshall

The Advocate, 2002
Violent femme
Nicola Griffith spills the beans about Stay, her new novel starring kick-ass lesbian crime fighter Aud Torvingen
By Etelka Lehoczky

January Magazine, 1999
An interview actually cobbled together from an AOL chat in 1998

Para*Doxa, 1998
Interview with Nicola Griffith

Colorado, 1998
I went to an all-girl catholic convent school. Being a dyke was probably inevitable

Pictures

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Few Words...
by Kelley Eskridge

Violent Femme

Nan A. Talese

Booksense Interview

Visitor...
by Mark Tiedemann

Publications
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