Celebrating its 20th year in 2020, the Griffin Poetry Prize has become known as the most adventurous and generous international literary award.
[2] Griffin is chairman, director and majority shareholder since 2002 of publisher House of Anansi Press/Groundwood Books.
He was formerly chairman of the Governors of Sedbergh School in Canada, a director of DGC Entertainment Ventures Corp and Chancellor of Bishop's University.
Griffin was previously chairman, director and majority shareholder of two Canadian manufacturing companies.
General Kinetics Engineering Corporation (Brampton, Ontario, Canada) designs and manufactures components for military and other tracked vehicles and high-speed rail.