

Lynne Griffin
Welcome to my bookshop! I’m a novelist and counselor, and I write family life stories of all kinds. I’m the author of the novels, Dark Rivers to Cross (Crooked Lane Books, 2022), The Dangers of an Ordinary Night (Crooked Lane Books, 2021), Sea Escape (Simon & Schuster, 2010), Life Without Summer (St. Martin’s Press, 2009), and Girl Sent Away (SixOneSeven Books, 2015). I've also written a nonfiction companion guide to Girl Sent Away for teachers called Let’s Talk About It: Adolescent Mental Health (SixOneSeven Books, 2015), and the parenting guide Negotiation Generation (Penguin, 2007).
I teach family studies at the undergraduate and graduate level and consult with families and schools nationally and internationally about vulnerabilities in learning and preventive mental health. I spent ten years as the parenting contributor for Boston 25 Morning News, and I regularly appear as a television guest expert on healthy family relationships. In addition to my own writing, I have a passion for coaching writers to find and write their own stories. To learn more about my work visit LynneGriffin.com.