Description: Griffor is entirely at home in the world at large, and in her poems she chronicles an unbroken continuum from her closest familial and companionable relationships to the hazards of true citizenship in our gigantic globalized society."--Jim Schley.
Brief description: Mariela Griffor grew up in Santiago, Chile. Her childhood in the quiet home of her grandparents came to an abrupt halt when Augusto Pinochet and his fascist regime's coup d'etat overthrew the democratic government of Salvador Allende in 1973. Always devoted to poetry, which has sustained her through two decades of turmoil, Mariela is currently living with her husband and two young daughters in Grosse Point, Michigan, where, among other writing and publishing activities, she recently established the not-for-profit Marick Press, specializing in publishing poetry. Her first poetry collection, Exiliana, was published this year (Luna Press).