Tucson Festival of Books

Rachel Eliza Griffiths



Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, visual artist, and novelist. She is a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for a NAACP Image Award. Griffiths is also a recipient of fellowships from many organizations including Cave Canem Foundation, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Yaddo. Her debut novel "Promise" was a Kirkus Reviews and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year. Her new memoir is "The Flower Bearers." She lives in New York with her husband Salman Rushdie.

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Books:
The Flower Bearers
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Random House
January 2026
ISBN 9780593730201
336 pages

Promise
A Novel
Fiction / Literature
Random House
August 2024
ISBN 9780593241943
352 pages