Nicola Griffith presents 'She is Here'

Third Place Books welcomes author Nicola Griffith to our Ravenna store for a conversation about her new collection, . Combining fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork, She is Here showcases Griffith's authorial power, precision, and flexibility, as well as her clear-eyed perspective on topics from disability justice to love to the role of the writer and beyond.

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Widely acclaimed as a novelist, here Nicola Griffith displays her power, precision, and clarity of thought in multiple modes and forms.

Known for her gorgeously supple prose that soars effortlessly over genre boundaries, Griffith is also an incisive essayist whose ground-breaking, data-driven work on gender bias in the literary ecosystem sparked self-searching conversations worldwide. In this heady m lange of essays, poems, art, and stories--some seen here for the first time--the author makes foundational assertions about love versus ownership ("Wife"), advocates for the writer as explorer ("Branding: It Burns"), and points out the gaping hole in our literary landscape where we'd expect to find disability fiction ("Overwriting the Old Story"). These and other public-facing essays are followed by four powerfully intimate poems. Returning to prose, Griffith immerses us so seamlessly in her viscerally imagined fiction that we feel how it is to be hurled like light through the stars in "Glimmer," hunted through the urban alleys of "Cold Wind" during a holiday blizzard, swept along irresistible currents of "Down the Path of the Sun," and, in "Many Things in Dumnet," a novella published here for the first time, brought ashore as a stranger to land where something is very wrong.

Finally, "Otherwise Unremarkable," series editor Nisi Shawl's interview with the author, teases out sometimes startling and always satisfying answers to questions on power, activism, immigration, cognitive poetics, and art.

Nicola Griffith (she/her) is a dual UK/US citizen living in Seattle. She is the author of award-winning novels, including Hild and Ammonite, and her shorter work has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, New York Times, and more. She is the founder and co-host of #CripLit, holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University, and enjoys a ferocious bout of wheelchair boxing. She is married to novelist and screenwriter Kelley Eskridge. Her most recent works include Spear and Menewood.

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