Brit Griffin is a writer and environmentalist, founder of Highgrader Magazine, co-author, We Lived A Life and Then Some (1996) and works as a researcher with an Algonquin community in north-west Quebec. Her debut novel, The Wintermen was shortlisted for the 2016 Northern Lit Award for Fiction and The Wintermen II: Into the Deep Dark was shortlisted for the 2019 Northern Lit Award for Fiction.  She lives off the beaten path in Cobalt, Ontario with her husband Charlie, the ravens and the foxes.