Mariela Griffor

Mariela Griffor (born September 29, 1961, Concepcion, Chile), is a poet, editor, publisher and diplomat. She is author of three poetry collections, Exiliana, House and most recently, The Psychiatrist (Eyewear Publishing, 2013), and has had her poems and translations published in many literary journals and magazines including Poetry International, Washington Square Review , Texas Poetry Review, and Éditions d'art Le Sabord, in anthologies including Poetry in Michigan / Michigan in Poetry, from New Issues Press.

Griffor was born in Concepción, Chile. She attended the University of Santiago and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She left Chile for an involuntary exile in Sweden in 1985. Griffor holds a B.A in Journalism from Wayne State University and a M.F.A in Creative Writing from New England College. She and her American husband returned to the United States in 1998 with their two daughters. They live in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan.

Griffor is co-founder of the institute for Creative Writers at Wayne State University and Publisher of Marick Press. Her work has appeared in Passages North, Cerise Press, Washington Square Review, Texas Poetry Review and many others. She is the author of Exiliana (Luna Publications) and House (Mayapple Press). Her latest publication is The Psychiatrist (Eyewear Publishing).

Griffor writes about her homeland of Chile, and her immigrant experiences as an exile in Sweden and the United States.

Poetry

• Exiliana, [Luna Publications] ISBN 978-0978147105 (Toronto, CANADA), 2007
• House, [Mayapple Press] ISBN 978-0932412-539 (Bay City, Michigan, USA), 2007
• The Psychiatrist, [Eyewear Publishing] ISBN 978-1-908998-11-8 (London, ENGLAND), 2013
• Resolana, El Taller del Poeta ISBN 978-84-941529-4-8 (Madrid, SPAIN), 2013

Translation

• Canto General, Tupelo Press (Boston, USA), 2016

Editing

• Poetry International,Issue 13/14 2009 Special Double Issue Featuring Chilean Poetry Today [San Diego State University Press] ISBN 1-879691-90-6 (San Diego, California), 2009

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• ^ "Mariela Griffor". Small Press Distribution. Retrieved 17 February 2013. 
• Maxwell-Snyder, Hope. "The Language of Loss by Mariela Griffor". The Montserrat Review. Retrieved 17 February 2013.