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Susan Griffin (Friday seminar guest speaker)
MFA Writers' Series
Friday, October 3, 3:30 am–5 pm
Writers' Studio, San Francisco Campus
195 De Haro at 15th Street
Contact: Teresa Walsh, program manager, 415.703.9237 or email
For additional information, including a comprehensive list of speakers and extended bios (if applicable) see the MFA in Writing Program's Writers' Series.
Susan Griffin is an award-winning poet, writer, essayist, playwright, and filmmaker who has written 19 books, including Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy and A Chorus of Stones. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Additional works include The Book of Courtesans, What Her Body Thought, Woman and Nature, Bending Home: Poems Selected and New 1967–1998, and she is the coeditor of the forthcoming Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World.
A recipient of an Emmy, a MacArthur Grant for Peace and International Cooperation, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Ms magazine, and several other publications.
She lives in Berkeley, California.