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Susan Griffin. Susan Griffin, well-known writer, poet and highly influential social thinker who has investigated Western culture's alienation from nature, is the author of, among other works, Woman and Nature, What Her Body Thought, and A Chorus of Stones. Her latest work, The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues, was published by Broadway Books (Random House) October 1, 2001. Woman and Nature, a classic work that inspired eco-feminism, was published in a new edition by Sierra Club Books in 2000. In 1998, Harper San Francisco published What Her Body Thought, an exploration of the way modern society responds to illness and the second volume of a longer work, a social autobiography. The first volume of this extended work, A Chorus of Stones, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award and won the BABRA award in 1992. Her recent essays on gender and society were collected in The Eros of Everyday Life, in 1994. Named by Utne Reader as one of a hundred important visionaries for the new millennium, she has been the recipient of a NEA grant, a MacArthur Grant for Peace and International Cooperation, and an Emmy award for her play, "Voices." She also has published several volumes of poetry. Unremembered Country won the Commonwealth Club's silver medal for poetry in 1987. In 1998, Cooper Canyon Press published Bending Home: Poems Selected and New 1967-1998, which was a finalist for the Western States Art Federation Award. She is presently at work on a libretto about the victims of atrocities in Latin America called 3Canto2 and a novel, as well as the third volume of her social autobiography. She lectures widely in the United States and abroad and is teaching a course called 3 Thinking Like Nature, 2 at the California Institute of Integral Studies, as well as teaching privately at her home in Berkeley.
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