Griffith was born in Newborough in February 1888 and educated at Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen.
[1] The book was awarded a prize at the National Eisteddford in Neath in 1934.
She won the prize jointly with Kate Roberts who had written Traed mewn cyffion (Feet in Chains), which reflected the hard life of a slate-quarrying family.
However it was alleged that Griffith's novel Creigiau Milgwyn was unworthy of the prize according to the academic T.J. Morgan.
Morgan blamed the historian Thomas Richards who had been the judge.