[2] She expanded into writing articles for newspapers and other media outlets, including BuzzFeed and The Guardian,[3][4] and the online current affairs and investigative journal, the Dublin Inquirer.
[6] She was invited to co-edit the Bare Hands online poetry magazine by its founder, fellow poet Kerrie O'Brien, and they issued monthly "runs" of the journal.
[7][8] Not Lost: A Story About Leaving Home, was published by New Island Books in Dublin in 2013, and comprises articles written in San Francisco, primarily on aspects of emigrant life during her first year there.
[11] A second novel, Other Words for Smoke, also for the young adult market, was issued in 2019 (Greenwillow and Titan), and a third, on a commission from a major music festival, later that year.
In an Ireland where only a tiny fraction of the pre-apocalyptic population survives, without information technology, there is a division of survivors between urban "Pale" and rural "Pasture".
It features two young protagonists, from Raheny and San Francisco, and was issued in a case with inserted objects and a "hidden compartment" for recipients' festival access bracelets.
[19] Griffin has mentioned Maeve Binchy as a major influence, on her work with dialogue and character, and pace,[20] as well as Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).
[26] Her 2019 young adult novel, Other Words for Smoke, was included on the 2020 American Library Association Rainbow List,[18] and won the Teen and YA category at the 2019 Irish Book Awards.
[28][29] Griffin was the Writer-In-Residence at Maynooth University for the 2017 to 2018 academic year,[30] where she conducted classes with students and provided workshops, talks and other events, including in county libraries.