Nicola Griffith

"When she was 17, she went off to university with plans to earn a science degree, but left after a couple of months..." -- (in Locus , Issue 428, Vol.37, No.3, September 1996).

"Nicola Griffith is a native of Leeds, where she was once an insurance clerk for forty-five days and a waitress for forty-five minutes. She moved to Hull at the age of eighteen, where she sang and wrote songs for the women's band Jane's Plane [later Janes Remains] and taught self defense to groups as varied as the Equal Opportunities Training Unit and the Union of Catholic Mothers. She now lives in Seattle, Washington, with her partner, SF writer Kelley Eskridge." [combined publisher's bumpf in Ammonite , UK pbk, 1993, and in Slow River , UK pbk, 1995]

"After being accepted to Clarion, she moved to the US, where she met her partner, Kelly Eskridge, and has lived ever since. (Eskridge and Griffith were 'married' in 1993, though the law still does not recognize marriage between two women.) In 1993, Griffith's first novel, Ammonite , appeared from Del Rey, and went on to win a host of awards, ranging from Georgia and Atlanta literary prizes to the Lambda Literary Award (1993) and the Tiptree Memorial Award (1994). In 1994, she officially became a resident alien. Del Rey published her second novel, Slow River , in 1995. It also won the Lambda Award." -- (in Locus , Issue 428, Vol.37, No.3, September 1996).

Ammonite
(check this link for an excerpt from the book)

Nicola Griffith Bibliography
(an alternative bibliography at the University of Wisconsin)

Nicola Griffith Biography
(a personal bio at the University of Wisconsin... highly recommended)

Nicola Griffith, writer extraordinaire
(news, books, short fiction, essays, interviews, upcoming appearances, awards, links, ask Nicola)