Nicola Griffith
British-American writer (b. 1960)
- Novelist
- short story author
- essayist
Nicola Griffith (/ˈnɪkələ ˈɡrɪfɪθ/; born 30 September 1960) is a British-American[1] novelist, essayist, and teacher. She has won the Washington State Book Award, Nebula Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards.
Personal life
Early life
Griffith was born 30 September 1960 in Leeds, to Margaret and Eric Griffith.[2]
Griffith's earliest surviving literary efforts include an illustrated booklet she was encouraged to create to prevent her from making trouble among her fellow nursery school students.[2] : 17 At age eleven she won a BBC student poetry prize and read aloud her winning work for radio broadcast.
Her early reading included the works of such novelists as Henry Treece[3] and Rosemary Sutcliff;[4][5] fantastic fiction including the works of E.E. Smith, Frank Herbert, and J.R.R. Tolkien; nonfiction and history — Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was a particular favorite;[3].
By the late 1980s, Griffith had begun experiencing symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS), though her illness remained undiagnosed. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in March 1993.[5]
While studying at Michigan State University, Griffith met and fell in love with fellow writer Kelley Eskridge.[5] On 4 September 1993, Griffith and Eskridge announced their commitment ceremony in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,[6] perhaps the first same-sex commitment announcement the paper had published. Griffith and Eskridge were legally married 4 September 2013.
Griffith wanted citizenship so she could remain in the country with her wife, but because she was a lesbian, she couldn't receive citizenship through marriage, and all other pathways were closed.[7] After much effort, Griffith received permission to live and work in the United States based on her "importance as a writer of lesbian/science fiction," making her the first out lesbian to receive a National Interest Waiver.[5] Her immigration resulted in a new law, and she is now a dual US/UK citizen.[8]
In 2017, after completing her thesis, entitled "Norming the Queer: Narrative Empathy via Focalized Heterotopia," Griffith received her PhD by publication from the University of East Anglia.[8][9]
By late 1987 Griffith, made her first professional fiction sale: "Mirrors and Burnstone" to Interzone. Her debut novel, Ammonite, received several offers from publishers, including St. Martin's Press, Avon Press, and Del Rey Books.[5] Griffith has since published nine full-length novels, a memoir, and numerous short stories and novellas.
In 2015, Griffith "founded the Literary Prize Data working group whose purpose initially was to assemble data on literary prizes in order to get a picture of how gender bias operates within the trade publishing ecosystem."[10]
In 2015 she began #CripLit, an online community for disabled writers."[10]
Awards and honors
Publications
Fiction
- Ammonite, Del Rey, ISBN 0345452380 (1992)
- Slow River, Ballantine Books, ISBN 0345395379 (1995)
- So Lucky, MCD x FSG Originals, ISBN 9780374265922 (2018)
- Spear, Tordotcom, ISBN 9781250819321 (2022)
Aud Torvingen series
- The Blue Place, William Morrow, ISBN 0380974460 (1998)
- Stay, Black Lizard, ISBN 140003230X (2002)
- Always, Riverhead Books, ISBN 1594489351 (2007)
The Hild Sequence series
- Hild, Picador, ISBN 9781250056092 (2013)
- Menewood, MCD, ISBN 9780374208080 (2023)
Nonfiction
- And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner Notes to a Writer's Early Life, Payseur & Schmidt ISBN 9780978911416 (2007)
Anthologies
- Bending the Landscape: Fantasy, Overlook Books, ISBN 1585675768 (1997, with Stephen Pagel)
- Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction, Overlook Books, ISBN 0879517328 (1998, with Stephen Pagel)
- Bending the Landscape: Horror, Overlook Books, ISBN 1585673722 (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, Aqueduct Press (2004, a collection containing Touching Fire, Songs of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese, and Yaguara)
- It Takes Two (2009)
- Cold Wind, Tor Books, ISBN 9781466871342 (2014)[43]
Critical studies and reviews of Griffith's work
- Holland, Cecelia (December 2013). "Locus Looks at Books : Divers Hands". Locus (635): 22. Review of Hild.
References
- ^ Griffith, Nicola (27 February 2013). "I am now an American citizen". Nicola Griffith. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ a b Griffith, Nicola (2007). And Now We Are Going to Have a Party, Volume 1: Limb of Satan. Seattle: Payseur & Schmidt. ISBN 0-9789114-1-5
- ^ a b "If you like the Aud books you might like …,", "Ask Nicola". Retrieved 10 March 2014
- ^ "The Makers of Britain" by Nicola Griffith. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ^ a b c d e van de Kruisweg, Ruud (1994). "Interview from HOLLAND SF". Nicola Griffith. Archived from the original on 15 May 2008. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "Commitment - Griffith-Eskridge". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 19 September 1993. p. L3.
- ^ Griffith, Nicola (13 October 2008). "Virgin birth (yes, really)". Nicola Griffith. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ a b "Nicola Griffith". Angela Ruskin University. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Griffith, Nicola (4 July 2017). "The story of my PhD, Part 1: Opportunity". Nicola Griffith. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ a b "About". Nicola Griffith. 24 February 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "1993 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Lothian, Alexis (1 January 2020). "Jeanne Gomoll Retires from Motherboard « Otherwise Award". Otherwise Award. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Notkin, Debbie (13 April 2017). "1993 Otherwise Award « Otherwise Award". Otherwise Award. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "5th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. 14 July 1993. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Notkin, Debbie (12 March 2010). "1993 Long List « Otherwise Award". Otherwise Award. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "Arthur C. Clarke Award 1994". science fiction awards database. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "Locus Awards 1994". science fiction awards database. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "1995 Nebula Awards®". Nebula Awards. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "1996 Nebula Awards®". Nebula Awards. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Gonzalez Cerna, Antonio (15 July 1996). "8th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Gonzalez Cerna, Antonio (15 July 1998). "10th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ a b "1999 Awards". Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ a b Gonzalez Cerna, Antonio (15 July 1999). "11th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "2000 Awards". Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ "2002 Awards". Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ a b Gonzalez Cerna, Antonio (10 July 2002). "14th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Gonzalez Cerna, Antonio (10 July 2003). "15th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "2005 Awards". Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ Gonzalez Cerna, Antonio (9 July 2005). "17th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Gonzalez Cerna, Antonio (30 April 2007). "20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "2008 Lambda Award Winners Announced". McNally Robinson Booksellers. 5 June 2008. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "2010 Hugo Awards Winners". Locus Online. 5 September 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "2013 Bisexual Book Awards Winners". Locus Online. 4 June 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Notkin, Debbie (31 October 2014). "The 2013 Tiptree Award winner has been selected! « Otherwise Award". Otherwise Award. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Notkin, Debbie (31 October 2014). "2013 Honor List « Otherwise Award". Otherwise Award. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "2013 Nebula Awards®". Nebula Awards. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "2013 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalists". Locus Online. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "Griffith Wins Washington State Book Award". Locus Online. 13 October 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Jarnagin, Briana (30 January 2019). "2019 Over the Rainbow List released, over 100 fiction and non-fiction titles". News and Press Center. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "2019 Tournament of Books Shortlist". Locus Online. 14 December 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "2019 Shortlist". Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "The 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction". The Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ "Cold Wind". 16 April 2014.
External links
- Official website
- Nicola Griffith at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The story behind Hild – Online essay by Nicola Griffith : Freed by Constraint at Upcoming4.me
- 30 years ago : a love story in photos by Nicola Griffith, 2018
- v
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- Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (1967)
- The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany (1968)
- Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin (1969)
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1970)
- Ringworld by Larry Niven (1971)
- A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg (1972)
- The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (1973)
- Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (1974)
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (1975)
- The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1976)
- Man Plus by Frederik Pohl (1977)
- Gateway by Frederik Pohl (1978)
- Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre (1979)
- The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke (1980)
- Timescape by Gregory Benford (1981)
- The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe (1982)
- No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop (1983)
- Startide Rising by David Brin (1984)
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- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (1986)
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