Nicola Griffith

Nicola Griffith is a BritishAmerican novelist, essayist, and teacher. Griffith has won the Washington State Book Award, Nebula Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards.

Griffith was born in Leeds, UK, to Margaret Mary and Eric Percival Griffith. Her parentswhom she describes in her 2007 memoir, And Now We Are Going to Have a Party, as wanting to belong to the middle of the middle class to fit in 7reared Griffith and her four sisters in the Catholic faith. Her 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.At age eleven she won a BBC student poetry prize and read aloud her winning work for radio broadcast.

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