Susan Griffin
Essayist Poet Novelist Playwright
Over fifty years, through twenty books, one a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Susan Griffin has been making unconventional connections between seemingly separate subjects. Whether pairing ecology and gender in her foundational work, Woman and Nature, or the private life with the targeting of civilians, in A Chorus of Stones, she has shed a new light on countless contemporary issues, including climate change, war, colonialism, the body, democracy, and terrorism.
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UPCOMING EVENTS:
April 19, 2018 at 5:30
Berkeley Art Museum, speaking about Viola Frey and art with artist Squeak Carnwath https://bampfa.org/event/squeak-carnwath-and-susan-griffin
April 28, 2018, at 5:00
Moderating a panel in the Bay Area Book Festival with Michael Kimmel and Khlad Beydoun called “Extremism Investigated at the Hotel Shattuck– Crystal Ballroom. https://www.baybookfest.org/schedule/
May 3, 2018
The Graduate Theological Union from 6-6:30 PM in conversation with Carolyn Merchant speaking about her work and eco-feminism.
May 6, 2018
The Sitting Room in Penngrove, Sonoma County from 2-4pm in conversation with Elizabeth Rosner, author of Survivor Cafe.http://www.sittingroom.org/events.html
Transforming Terror
REMEMBERING THE SOUL OF THE WORLDEdited by Karin Lofthus Carrington and Susan Griffinwww.transformingterror.comThis inspired collection offers a new paradigm for moving the world beyond violence as the first, and often only, response to violence. Through essays and poetry, prayers and mediations, Transforming Terror powerfully demonstrates that terrorist violence—defined here as any attack on unarmed civilians—can never […]
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy
Susan Griffin’s Wrestling with The Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen (Trumpeter), continues what she began in A Chorus of Stones (a New York Times “Notable Book”) as the third volume of what she calls a social autobiography, and seems especially relevant as Americans face a presidential election that has the potential to […]
The Book of the Courtesans
The Book of the Courtesans, A Catalogue of Their Virtues gives us a radically new interpretation of an erotic tradition which was practiced from antiquity to the early twentieth century throughout Europe and eventually America. Though Turkish harems, Japanese geisha and Chinese courtesans are well known in the West, Europe’s courtesans have been ignored. Elegantly written […]
What Her Body Thought
Review For three years, philosopher and feminist theorist Susan Griffin was afflicted with Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS). Hobbled by constant pain, weakness, insomnia, and diminished thinking, she was forced to rely upon friends just to get through each day. In this book, similar in spirit to her earlier A Chorus of Stones, Griffin […]
Eros of Everyday Life
Susan Griffin once again takes readers on a startling journey, showing the profound connections between religion and philosophy, science and nature, Western thought and the role of women, and the supremacy of abstract thought over the forces of life. Featuring the brilliant original title essay that is nothing less than an intellectual and emotional exploration […]
A Chorus of Stones
offers a radical revisoning of the nature of war and gender, through an illuminating interplay between between private suffering and public tragedy. The book sets the story of the invention, development, manufacture and use of the first atomic bombs against the background of struggles played out in the private lives of major figures in history and […]
