Claudine Griggs

Claudine Griggs is the Writing Specialist at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security in D.C., and her publications include three nonfiction books about transsexuals along with a couple dozen articles on writing, teaching, and other topics. She also writes fiction and science fiction, her first-love genre as a teenager. Her novel Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is available now. Her story “Helping Hand” was featured in Lightspeed Magazine and was made into a an animated short for the Netflix show Love, Death & Robots. Her story “Raptures of the Deep” was featured in Mountain Island Magazine. “Maiden Voyage of the Fearless” was featured in Strongly Worded Women: The Best of The Year of Publishing Women: An Anthology. Her story “Yes, Dear, Cancer Can Kill a Trans Woman” is included in Denial Kills: An Anthology of Poetry and Short Fiction. Griggs earned her BA and MA in English at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.