Nicola Griffith

Nicola Griffith was born in Yorkshire, England. Her novels [Ammonite (1993), Slow River (1995), The Blue Place (1999), and Stay (2002)] have won several grants and prizes, including the Nebula, Tiptree, and several Lambda awards. She is also the co-editor of the Bending The Landscape (1997) anthology series. She lives with her partner, writer Kelley Eskridge, in Seattle—where she takes enormous delight in everything. (Photograph by Karen Derby)