[5] Griffith's earliest surviving literary efforts include an illustrated booklet she was encouraged to create to prevent her from making trouble among her fellow nursery school students.

[3]: 17  At age eleven she won a BBC student poetry prize and read aloud her winning work for radio broadcast.

Her early reading included the works of such novelists as Henry Treece[6] and Rosemary Sutcliff;[7][8] fantastic fiction including the works of E. E. Smith, Frank Herbert, and J. R. R. Tolkien; nonfiction and history — Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was a particular favorite.

[8] While studying at Michigan State University, Griffith met and fell in love with fellow writer Kelley Eskridge.

"[13] In 2017, after completing her thesis, entitled "Norming the Queer: Narrative Empathy via Focalized Heterotopia," Griffith received her PhD by publication from the University of East Anglia.