Sarah Maria Griffin

Sarah Maria Griffin (c.1988), is an Irish writer, poet, and zinester living in Dublin.

Sarah Maria Griffin
Bornc.1988
Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish

Born about 1988, Griffin grew up in the Kilbarrack and Raheny areas of Dublin. Griffin holds a degree in English, Media and Cultural Studies from Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology and a Masters in Creative Writing from NUI Galway.[1] Griffin started her career writing poetry before expanding into writing articles for newspapers and other media outlets such as Buzzfeed and The Guardian.[2][3] Her first book, Not Lost: A Story About Leaving Home, was published in 2013 and is based on articles she wrote while living in San Francisco.[4] She returned to Ireland in 2015.[5]

Griffin won the 2017 European Science Fiction Awards Chrysalis Award and was the Writer-In-Residence at Maynooth University for the 2018 to 2019 academic year.[6][5][7] Her 2019 young adult novel, Other Words for Smoke, was included on the 2020 American Library Association Rainbow List.[8]

As of 2019, Griffin writes a podcast for The Irish Times.[9][1][10][11]

Bibliography
  • Follies, (2011)[12]
  • Not Lost: A Story About Leaving Home, (2013)[13]
  • Spare and Found Parts, (2016)[14]
  • Other Words for Smoke, (2019)[15]

References and sources
  1. Freyne, Patrick (2013-03-21). "Tomorrowland: 'I can't believe my life'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  2. Griffin, Sarah Maria. "This Is What It's Like To Have Sleep Paralysis". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  3. Griffin, Sarah Maria (2020-03-20). "Animal Crossing: New Horizons – the video game where we can still be together". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  4. Sat; Jan, 25; 2014 - 00:00 (2014-01-25). "Sarah Maria Griffin". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 2021-01-30.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. "Writer's Block with Sarah Maria Griffin". The Gloss Magazine. 2018-05-04. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  6. "ESFS Awards 2017 – European Science Fiction Society". Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  7. "Rob Doyle and Sarah Maria Griffin named as Writers-in-Residence | Maynooth University". www.maynoothuniversity.ie. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  8. "The 2020 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  9. "dlr Writer in residence 2018-2019, Sarah Maria Griffin". dlr LIBRARIES. 2010-01-01. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  10. Griffin, Sarah Maria (2016-02-03). "Biography". Dublin Inquirer. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  11. "An Post Irish Book Awards » Sarah Maria Griffin". An Post Irish Book Awards. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  12. Griffin, Sarah Maria. (2010). Follies. Belfast: Lapwing Publications. ISBN 9781907276699. OCLC 753639790.
  13. Griffin, Sarah Maria. Not lost : a story about leaving home. Dublin. ISBN 9781848403031. OCLC 1003317174.
  14. Griffin, Sarah Maria, Spare and found parts, Kerr, Alana,, Smyth, Alan, ISBN 9781441742087, OCLC 1000301871
  15. Griffin, Sarah Maria (2019-03-12). Other words for smoke (First ed.). New York, NY. ISBN 9780062408914. OCLC 1040530861.
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