{{short description|Canadian journalist and writer}} '''Brit Griffin''' (born c. 1959), is a Canadian writer.
==Biography== 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.<ref>[http://rrj.ca/the-outsiders/ "The Outsiders"], ''Ryerson Review of Journalism'', Spring 2003.</ref>
Griffin was a co-author with Angus of the 1996 book ''We Lived a Life and Then Some'' ({{ISBN|1896357067}})<ref name="amazon">Search List from Amazon Books. www.Amazon.ca. 2007.</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.thesudburystar.com/2014/11/08/sudbury-column-how-a-western-becomes-a-northern "Sudbury column: How a western becomes a 'Northern'"]. ''Sudbury Star'', November 8, 2014.</ref> In 2018, she released the sequel, "The Wintermen II: Into the Deep Dark" with [http://latitude46publishing.com/ 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''.
==Awards and honours== 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.
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