Pip Griffin Pip Griffin i(A88120 works by)
Born: Established: 1939
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Pip Griffin trained as a primary school teacher and has taught in New Zealand and Australia. She has also created and delivered training progams in writing and communication skills for Australian civil servants. Griffin has a degree in anthropology and she has been writing fiction since 1990. She has had short stories published in Womanspeak and in Sydney Life. She began to write poetry in earnest in 1998. [Source: Kasama vol 22, no. 3]

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Virginia and Katherine : The Secret Diaries Leichhardt : Pohutukawa Press , 2021 23891443 2021 selected work poetry

'In January 1923, Virginia Woolf noted in her diary that Katherine Mansfield had promised two years earlier to send her diary to her. She was perplexed and hurt that she had not, not knowing how ill Katherine had been. The ‘secret diaries’—Virginia’s begun after Katherine’s death in 1923, Katherine’s begun in 1920—are written in lyrical poems inspired by the friendship (and intense rivalry) of the two women. Virginia and Katherine recognised that they were ‘both after the same thing’ in their compulsive, innovative work of ‘writing their lives’.  The book presents a fresh dialogue that also suggests a tantalising possibility.'  (Publication summary)
2022 winner SWW Book Awards — Poetry
y separately published work icon Margaret Caro Margaret Caro : The Extraordinary Life of a Pioneering Dentist Australia : Pip Griffin , 2020 27025005 2020 selected work poetry

'The story of Margaret Caro, the poet’s aunt, and her family. First female dentist in NZ, Seventh-day Adventist and social reformer, she was a towering figure who worked on the NZ goldfields with her husband Jacob, a physician. They had three very successful sons. After her many adventures in the South Island she practised in Napier and experienced the 1931 Hawkes Bay earthquake. Includes a timeline for the family.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2020 highly commended SWW Book Awards — Poetry
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