Brit Griffin

Brit Griffin is a Canadian journalist and writer. In 2014, she published her debut novel, The Wintermen, with Sudbury-based Scrivener Press.[1]

In 2018, she released the sequel, "The Wintermen II: Into the Deep Dark" with Latitude 46.

Griffin's poetry has been published in Room, a magazine focusing on literature, art, and feminism. She has published short stories in Climate Culture.

She was the publisher of HighGrader, a magazine she cofounded with her husband, musician and politician Charlie Angus.

Griffin and Angus first met in 1981, when Angus was a member of the band L'Étranger. They married, cofounded a homeless shelter in downtown Toronto in 1985, and subsequently moved to Cobalt in 1990. While living in Cobalt, Griffin and Angus cofounded HighGrader in 1995; Griffin acted as the magazine's publisher, while Angus was its editor.[2]

Griffin was a co-author with Angus of the 1996 book We Lived a Life and Then Some (ISBN 1896357067)[3] and the 1998 musical play Wildcat. She has also been published in the Jesuit magazine Compass.

Griffin won two American Catholic Press awards for her writing and works as a freelancer in print, video, and radio. She currently works for First Nations.

References
  1. "Sudbury column: How a western becomes a 'Northern'". Sudbury Star, November 8, 2014.
  2. "The Outsiders", Ryerson Review of Journalism, Spring 2003.
  3. Search List from Amazon Books. www.Amazon.ca. 2007.


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