Nicola Griffith is a native of Yorkshire, England, where she earned her beer money teaching women's self-defense, fronting a band, and arm-wrestling in bars, before discovering writing and moving to the United States. Her immigration case was a fight and ended up making new law: the State Department declared it to be -in the National Interest- for her to live and work in this country. This didn't thrill the more conservative powerbrokers, and she ended up on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, where her case was used as an example of the country's declining moral standards. In 1993 a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis slowed her down a bit, and she concentrated on writing: Ammonite (1993), Slow River (1995), The Blue Place (1998), Stay (2002), Always (2007), and Hild (2013). Griffith is the co-editor of the Bending the Landscape series of original short fiction. Her multimedia memoir, And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner Notes to a Writer's Early Life, is a limited collector's edition. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in an assortment of academic texts and a variety of journals, including Nature, New Scientist, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Out. She's won the Washington State Book Award, the Tiptree, Nebula, the World Fantasy Award, the Premio Italia, and the Lambda Literary Award (six times), among many others. Now a dual U.S./U.K. citizen, Nicola Griffith is married to writer Kelley Eskridge. They live in Seattle, where Griffith is currently lost in the seventh century, emerging occasionally to drink just the right amount of beer and take enormous delight in everything. From the Hardcover edition.
-Aud Torvingen is a classic noir hero. . . . .Griffith is a writer of considerable gifts. Her sentences shimmer, her powers of observation and description are razor sharp.---The New York Times Book Review -With Stay, Griffith proves she can write crime fiction that stacks up more than favorably with the work of the best writers in the field.... Dennis Lehane, Andrew Vachss and James Lee Burke have each taken crime fiction to a new level and each has expanded the possibilities of the genre. Nicola Griffith is the next name on a very short list.- --Tacoma News Tribune -Sleek, sexy, and decidedly dangerous, Aud...is everything a suspense novel heroine should be.- --The Advocate -A noir thriller with a female protagonist who makes La Femme Nikita look like a Powerpuff Girl.- --Details -Griffith has a fine way with character and a sure talent.- --Los Angeles Times -Griffith's real genius is in her portrayal of the brilliant, though damaged, Aud, who embodies the traits of the mythical Norse berserker. . . . A finely nuanced, frightening plunge into the dark heart of an exceptional woman.- --Village Voice -Griffith's tautly balanced prose perfectly complements her heroine's erratic progress. . . . [She] skillfully links sensual details with emotional content, anchoring us firmly in Aud's brutal, beautiful world.- --Seattle Times -Stay is simply gorgeous--a powerful character study in the rough domain of mystery and adventure.- --Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina -Griffith employs a crime thriller's page-turning audacity and hard-boiled heroine without succumbing to cheap genre cliches. Like the protagonist, the language has a steely snap to it. . . . Stay is a captivating read.- --Out -Aud, the protagonist of this novel, is an intuitive, old-fashioned sleuth who would do Elmore Leonard proud.- --Entertainment Weekly -Griffith's prose is at once brutal and beautifully wrought. Stay has a central character both hard-boiled and a softie at heart, and momentum like a car wreck.- --San Diego Union-Tribune
-Aud Torvingen is a classic noir hero. . . . .Griffith is a writer of considerable gifts. Her sentences shimmer, her powers of observation and description are razor sharp.---The New York Times Book Review -With Stay, Griffith proves she can write crime fiction that stacks up more than favorably with the work of the best writers in the field.... Dennis Lehane, Andrew Vachss and James Lee Burke have each taken crime fiction to a new level and each has expanded the possibilities of the genre. Nicola Griffith is the next name on a very short list.- --Tacoma News Tribune -Sleek, sexy, and decidedly dangerous, Aud...is everything a suspense novel heroine should be.- --The Advocate -A noir thriller with a female protagonist who makes La Femme Nikita look like a Powerpuff Girl.- --Details -Griffith has a fine way with character and a sure talent.- --Los Angeles Times -Griffith's real genius is in her portrayal of the brilliant, though damaged, Aud, who embodies the traits of the mythical Norse berserker. . . . A finely nuanced, frightening plunge into the dark heart of an exceptional woman.- --Village Voice -Griffith's tautly balanced prose perfectly complements her heroine's erratic progress. . . . [She] skillfully links sensual details with emotional content, anchoring us firmly in Aud's brutal, beautiful world.- --Seattle Times -Stay is simply gorgeous--a powerful character study in the rough domain of mystery and adventure.- --Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina -Griffith employs a crime thriller's page-turning audacity and hard-boiled heroine without succumbing to cheap genre cliches. Like the protagonist, the language has a steely snap to it. . . . Stay is a captivating read.- --Out -Aud, the protagonist of this novel, is an intuitive, old-fashioned sleuth who would do Elmore Leonard proud.- --Entertainment Weekly -Griffith's prose is at once brutal and beautifully wrought. Stay has a central character both hard-boiled and a softie at heart, and momentum like a car wreck.- --San Diego Union-Tribune
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