Susan Griffin is an award-winning poet, writer, essayist,
playwright, and filmmaker, and has written nineteen books,
including A Chorus of Stones, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her works include The Book of Courtesans, What Her Body Thought, Woman and Nature, Bending Home: Poems Selected and New 1967–1998, and she is the co-editor of the forthcoming Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World.

A recipient of an Emmy, a MacArthur Grant for Peace and
International Cooperation, and a grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts, her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Ms magazine, and several other publications. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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