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Brit Griffin is a Canadian journalist and writer.

Biography[edit]

Griffin met musician and politician Charlie Angus in 1981, when Angus was a member of the band L'Étranger. They married, cofounded a homeless shelterindowntown Toronto in 1985, and moved to Cobalt, Ontario, in 1990. In 1995, while living in Cobalt, Griffin and Angus cofounded HighGrader; Griffin acted as the magazine's publisher, while Angus was its editor.[1]

Griffin was a co-author with Angus of the 1996 book We Lived a Life and Then Some (ISBN 1896357067)[2] and the 1998 musical play Wildcat. She has also been published in the Jesuit magazine Compass.

In 2014, she published her debut novel, The Wintermen, with Sudbury-based Scrivener Press.[3] 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.

Awards and honours[edit]

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[edit]

  • ^ Search List from Amazon Books. www.Amazon.ca. 2007.
  • ^ "Sudbury column: How a western becomes a 'Northern'". Sudbury Star, November 8, 2014.

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