Griffin articulated her anti-pornography feminism in Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature (1981). Griffin attributes her connection to ecofeminism to her upbringing along the Pacific Coast, which she believes cultivated her awareness of ecology. Considered a form of prose-poetry, this work is believed to have launched ecofeminism in the United States. Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (1978) has sold more than 100,000 copies, and draws connections between ecological destruction, sexism, and racism. 'Rape: The All-American Crime' (1971), an article published in Ramparts, was one of the first publications about rape from a feminist perspective. Griffin describes her work as 'draw connections between the destruction of nature, the diminishment of women and racism, and trac the causes of war to denial in both private and public life.' Her work has been translated into over 12 languages. Griffin has written 21 books, including works of nonfiction, poetry, anthologies, plays, and a screenplay. Griffin's papers are located at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, at Harvard University. She currently lives in Berkeley, California. Griffin has taught at the California Institute for Integral Studies, Pacifica Graduate Institute, the Wright Institute, and the University of California. She has taught as an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley as well as at Stanford University and California Institute of Integral Studies. She attended the University of California, Berkeley for two years, then transferred to San Francisco State College, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing (1965) and her Master of Arts degree (1973), both degrees under the tutelage of Kay Boyle.

Having spent a year in a post-War Jewish home, her German heritage wasn't openly spoken of and she initially demonized Germans, but later made several trips to Germany (including to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp) to reconcile her Jewish and German heritages. Her biological family were of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and German ancestry. Following her father's death when she was 16, she bounced around the family but was eventually taken into the home and family of noted artist Morton Dimondstein.

Griffin was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1943 and has resided in California since then. Susan Griffin (born January 26, 1943) is a radical feminist philosopher, essayist and playwright particularly known for her innovative, hybrid-form ecofeminist works.

Woman and nature the roaring inside her