Mariela Griffor

Mariela Griffor , is a poet, editor, publisher and diplomat. She is author of three poetry collections, Exiliana, House and most recently, The Psychiatrist , and has had her poems and translations published in many literary journals and magazines including Poetry International, Washington Square Review , Texas Poetry Review, and ditions dart Le Sabord, in anthologies including Poetry in Michigan Michigan in Poetry, from New Issues Press.

Griffor was born in Concepcion, Chile. She attended the University of Santiago and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She left Chile for an involuntary exile in Sweden in 1985. Griffor holds a B.A in Journalism from Wayne State University and a M.F.A in Creative Writing from New England College. She and her American husband returned to the United States in 1998 with their two daughters. They live in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan.

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