Brit Griffin

Griffin met musician and later politician Charlie Angus in 1981, when Angus was a member of the band L'Étranger. They married, cofounded a homeless shelter in downtown 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. Her latest novel is The Haunting of Modesto O'Brien, a gothic thriller.

Griffin's poetry has been published in Room, a magazine focusing on literature, art, and feminism. She has published short stories in Climate Culture.

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.