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Jay Griffiths has written for Radiohead in their newspaper The Universal Sigh, and her work has featured in The Strokes film about the making of their work, and was quoted on the cover of KT Tunstall’s album Tiger Suit. She created a short film 'Almost Invisible Angels' where her text was voiced by Mark Rylance. She is one of the 100 international non-fiction writers selected for The Future Library, by artist Katie Paterson. She was commissioned to write about twilight for performance at the Purcell Rooms, and the text became her short book 'Twilight'.

 

She has written long-form journalism including about contemporary fascism for Aeon magazine, about borrowing a horse and riding to Prague to find her (deceased) father in Inque magazine, about skating for Lapham’s Quarterly, and about soil for Emergence, and columns for Orion magazine in the USA. She has contributed to the London Review of Books, the Guardian, the Observer, The Idler, Utne, and Wild Earth and has broadcast about her work on the BBC's Radio 4, (the Today programme, Start the Week, and Woman's Hour) and on Radio 3 and the World Service, as well as national radio in the States and in Australia. She has reviewed for The Times Literary Supplement.

 

She has contributed essays to many collections including The SAGE Handbook of Global Childhoods, (Sage Publications); Depression, Law and Ethics (Oxford University Press); Arboreal: A Collection of New Woodland Writing (Little Toller); This is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook (Penguin); Gifts of Gravity and Light: A Nature Almanac for the 21st Century (Hodder and Stoughton); Letters to the Earth (William Collins); Nature is a Human Right (Penguin Random House); Towards Re-Enchantment: Place and Its Meanings (ArtEvents); In Her Element: Women and the Landscape (Honno).

 

Her fiction includes Anarchipelago, and A Love Letter from a Stray Moon, (Text and Little Toller), with a foreword by John Berger. One of her stories was selected for the anthology Best British Short Stories, 2014. She has translated El Ojo Verde: Cosmovisiones Amazónicas from Spanish to English as The Green Eye: Amazonian Cosmovisions, (Aidesep, Peru). She has written poetry for The Long White Thread of Words: Poems for John Berger (Smokestack Books). She has written a short story for the collection Beacons: Stories For Our Not So Distant Future (Oneworld).

 

She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, where she gave a presentation on Kith and is a member of the Welsh Academi. She has appeared in conversation with John Berger at the British Library, and with Philip Pullman at the Oxford Literary Festival. She has also appeared at the Purcell Rooms, the Hay Literary Festival, Melbourne Writers' Festival, Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Sacred Arts Festival in India, Stoke Newington Literary Festival, Bristol Festival of Ideas, Essex Book Festival and many other literary venues. She was part of a year-long event themed on 'Stay Where You Are — the Meanings of Occupation' including public readings at Aldeburgh, and publication through the Film and Video Umbrella.

 

She has written programme notes for the Royal Shakespeare Company for their productions of The Tempest and As You Like It. She has held the Hay Festival International Fellowship and the writer in residency at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. She has commissioned a course 'About Welsh' as an introduction to the history of the Welsh language and its relationship to other languages.

 

She has tutored writing courses at the Arvon Centre, Tŷ Newydd and the Aigas Field Centre in Scotland.

 

She has swum with wild otters in a loch in Scotland and is a wild skater whenever the Welsh lakes freeze.

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She was one of the Red Rebels supporting Extinction Rebellion and her face has been photographed and grown in grass (yes, grass) by the environmental artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey. ​She is a member of Hard Art, a group of political artists held by Brian Eno.

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Her cat is pictured in front of the world's best tea-towel motto:

BE KIND, BE HONEST AND DO EVERYTHING WITH LOVE

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