Susan Griffin, Author

Susan Griffin is a well-known writer and poet. Among her many books, A Chorus of Stones, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award, won the BABRA award in 1992 and was a NY Times Notable Book of the Year. Her play Voices, which won an Emmy in 1975 for a local PBS production, has been performed throughout the world, including a radio production by the BBC.

Her latest work, The Book of the Courtesans, a Catalogue of Their Virtues, was published by Broadway Books (Random House) in 2001. Woman and Nature, the classic work that inspired eco-feminism, was published in a new edition by Sierra Club Books in 2000. Named by Utne reader as one of a hundred important visionaries for the new millennium, she has been the recipient of an NEA grant, and Macarthur Grant for Peace and International Cooperation. Her work, which has been translated in 17 languages, is taught in colleges and universities internationally.

She has published several volumes of poetry. Unremembered Country won the Commonwealth Club’s Silver Medal for poetry in 1987. In 1998 Copper Canyon Press published Bending Home, Poems Selected and New 1967-1998, which was a finalist for the Western States Art Federation Award. Her play Voices won an Emmy for a local PBS production in 1975. Her more recent play, Thicket, performed in San Francisco by Ruth Zaporah, was published by The Kenyon Review. She is completing Canto, a play to be set to music, about the massacres of villagers in Salvador.

In addition to working as consultant for two other documentary films, she co-authored the script for the Academy ward nominated film, Berkeley in the Sixties. She is currently at work on a script for a documentary depicting the lives of Parisian courtesans. And she is writing a new book, Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy, the Autobiography of an American Citizen, to be published by Trumpeter Books in 2007. She is also co-editing an anthology entitled, Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World, to be published by UC Press. She lectures widely in the United States and abroad, and teaches occasional courses at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Pacifica Graduate School, as well as privately at her home in Berkeley.