Susan Griffin is a well-known writer and social thinker. Her most recent book, the best selling The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues was published in the fall of 2001. Her work, Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her; Pornography and Silence; and A Chorus of Stones has been influential in several movements, shaping both ecological and feminist thought.

A Chorus of Stones, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and won the Bay Area Book Critics Award. A collection of her poetry published in 1987, Unremembered Country, won the California Commonwealth Prize for poetry. She has been the recipient of a MacArthur grant for Peace and International Cooperation, a NEA Fellowship, and she was awarded an Emmy for her play Voices.

She lectures widely throughout the United States and Europe, and lives and teaches writing and the creative process privately in Berkeley, California. The Eros of Everyday Life was published September 1995. What Her Body Thought: A Journey into the Shadows was published in 1999. Bending Home: Selected New Poems, 1967-1998, published by Copper Canyon Press in 1998, is a finalist for the Western States Art.