Under the Rainbow: Nicola Griffith
Join us for a storyteller event in partnership with Under the Rainbow! This month's storyteller is Nicola Griffith!
Nicola Griffith is the author of nine novels, including Hild, Spear, and Menewood. In addition to her fiction and nonfiction (New York Times, Guardian, Nature, New Scientist) she is known for her data-driven 2015 work on bias in the literary ecosystem and as founder and co-host, with Alice Wong, of #CripLit. Awards include the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Society of Authors ADCI Literary Prize, two Washington State Book Awards, the Premio Italia, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Otherwise awards, and six Lambda Literary Awards. She holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University, is married to writer Kelley Eskridge, and lives in Seattle—where in 2024 she was inducted into the SFF Hall of Fame. In 2025 she was named as SFWA’s 41st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master.
Doors open at 6 and the event begins at 6:30.
Nicola Griffith is the author of nine novels, including Hild, Spear, and Menewood. In addition to her fiction and nonfiction (New York Times, Guardian, Nature, New Scientist) she is known for her data-driven 2015 work on bias in the literary ecosystem and as founder and co-host, with Alice Wong, of #CripLit. Awards include the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Society of Authors ADCI Literary Prize, two Washington State Book Awards, the Premio Italia, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Otherwise awards, and six Lambda Literary Awards. She holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University, is married to writer Kelley Eskridge, and lives in Seattle—where in 2024 she was inducted into the SFF Hall of Fame. In 2025 she was named as SFWA’s 41st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master.
Doors open at 6 and the event begins at 6:30.
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Location
Open from 9:00am–8:00pm on the day of the event