Brit Griffin

Brit Griffin moved to an ex-silver mining town because she couldn't resist its post-industrial, vaguely dystopian, landscape. She has co-authored a non-fiction history (We Lived a Life and Then Some: The Life, Death and Life of a Mining Town, Between the Lines, 1996) that was listed as a must-read on the 2011 CBC Cross-Country Check-up Summer Reading list. For ten years she ran an independent magazine on rural and resource-based communities. She has worked as a freelancer in print, video, and radio. Currently, Griffin works for Timiskaming First Nation, an Algonquin community in northern Quebec. She lives in the town of Cobalt with her husband, and is the mother of three daughters.