Nicola Griffith (born 1960) is a British science fiction and mystery writer, editor and essayist currently living (with her partner, writer Kelley Eskridge) in Seattle, in the United States. Griffith is a 1988 alum of the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction writing workshop. She published her first novel Ammonite in 1993, which won both the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the Lambda Award. Her second novel, Slow River (1994), won the Nebula Award, for best novel, and another Lambda. She has a lively website at nicolagriffith.com

Together with Stephen Pagel, Nicola Griffith has edited a series of three anthologies, Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (1997), Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (1998) and Bending the Landscape: Horror (2001). These explore gay and lesbian issues in fantastic settings.

Her latest novel, Stay (2002), is a crime novel. Her collection of stories, With Her Body (2004) is science fiction and fantasy.

Bibliography

• Ammonite (1993, novel)
• Slow River (1995, novel)
• Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (1997, anthology, with Stephen Pagel)
• Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (1998, anthology, with Stephen Pagel)
• The Blue Place (1998, novel)
• Bending the Landscape: Horror (2001, anthology, with Stephen Pagel)
• Stay (2002, novel)
• With Her Body (2004, stories)
• Always (forthcoming 2007, novel)