Jasmine Griffin

Jasmine Griffin (she/her/they/them) is a black queer writer native to Cincinnati and based in New Orleans. A teaching artist with Women Writing for (a) Change, Clarion West, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and Hugo House, Jasmine also currently holds the role of Associate Educator at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Jasmine previously held the roles with the Taft Museum of Art, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, the Mercantile Library of Cincinnati, and Carve Magazine. Jasmine was recently published in Sage Cigarettes, Writer's Digest, midnight & indigo, Coffin Bell, Vast Chasm Magazine, Eunoia Review, Random Sample Review, Cincinnati Refined, Genre: Urban Arts, and Cleaning up Glitter. Jasmine received a MA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University. Jasmine released a debut poetry chapbook, Strange Religion, in July of 2024 and a poetry collection entitled Truth & Lore in September 2025. Jasmine is currently at work on their first novel, Blackbird at the Crossroads, which is set in New Orleans and steeped in Southern lore.