Susan Griffin

Susan Griffin (born January 26, 1943) is an American poet, essayist, and playwright.

Life
Griffin was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1943 and has resided in California since then.

Writing
Griffin calls herself an eco-feminist author. She describes her work as "draw[ing] connections between the destruction of nature, the diminishment of women and racism, and trac[ing] the causes of war to denial in both private and public life."

Recognition
She received a MacArthur grant for Peace and International Cooperation, an NEA Fellowship, and an Emmy Award for the play Voices.

Poetry

 * Dear Sky. 1971.
 * Like the Iris of an Eye. 1976.
 * Unremembered Country. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1987.
 * Bending Home: Selected New Poems, 1967-1998. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1998.

Prose

 * Woman and Nature: the Roaring Inside Her (1978) Ecofeminist treatise
 * Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature (1981) Sociological aspects of pornography
 * A Chorus of Stones: the Private Life of War (1993) Psychological aspects of violence, war, womanhood
 * The Eros of Everyday Life: Essays on Ecology, Gender and Society (1995)
 * What Her Body Thought: a Journey into the Shadows (1999)
 * The Book of the Courtesans: a Catalogue of Their Virtues (2001)
 * Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen (2008)
 * Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World, co-edited with Karen Lofthus Carrington (University of California Press, 2011)