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Gail Griffin

Gail Griffin is the author of four books of nonfiction, most recently “Grief’s Country: A Memoir in Pieces.” Her first collection of poetry, “Omena Bay. Testament,” has won the Wilder Prize from Two Sylvias Press and will appear in 2023. She is working on a collection of personal essays about the nature and experience of whiteness. She lives in southwest Michigan.

By Gail Griffin

White Kids’ Nightmares

by Gail Griffin

Cri de Coeur Some years ago, in a workshop on whiteness I was leading, a delegation from the local Friends’ Meeting was among the participants. One of them was a very elderly woman, so disabled she was nearly bent double and moved slowly, with great difficulty. I’m saying she had every excuse to stay home.

Spring 2023

Bringing Up the Bodies: An Advent Story

by Gail Griffin

December in Michigan, but no snow yet. A cold, wet night. Five months since Eric Garner begged for breath as his face was shoved into the pavement in New York City. Four months since Mike Brown bled out on the pavement in Ferguson, Missouri, lying for four hours in the heat of an August afternoon

Spring 2018

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