Sarah Maria Griffin, poet, author (Eat the Ones You Love; Strange is the Light)

Sarah Maria Griffin, poet, author (Eat the Ones You Love; Strange is the Light)

My guest today is an Irish writer, poet, critic, and podcaster. Born and raised in Dublin, she began writing seriously as a teenager, studied English, Media and Cultural Studies at IADT, and later completed a Master’s in Creative Writing at NUI Galway. Her early work included the poetry collection Follies and Not Lost, a book of essays about emigration written after she moved to San Francisco in 2012.


Since returning to Ireland, she has published a series of acclaimed novels, including Spare and Found Parts and Other Words for Smoke, which won Teen and Young Adult Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Her 2025 horror novel Eat the Ones You Love was followed by a shortlist for Author of the Year, and she is now the 2026 Arts Council Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. Alongside her fiction, she writes about games for The Guardian. Her new horror novel, Strange Is the Light, is out now, and she is currently working on another book, about video games, titled Everything Not Saved.


LINKS


Sarah Maria Griffin – books & socials


Sarah Maria Griffin – official website

Sarah Maria Griffin – Instagram (@sarahgriffski)

Sarah Maria Griffin – Substack

Sarah Maria Griffin – writing about games for The Guardian


Strange as the Light (out 8 September 2026)

Strange as the Light – Waterstones

Strange as the Light – Titan Books

Strange as the Light – Bookshop.org UK


Earlier novels

Eat the Ones You Love – Waterstones

Other Words for Smoke – Waterstones


Sarah's Perfect Console

EarthBound (SNES, 1994) – Wikipedia

EarthBound – Nintendo Switch Online

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask – Wikipedia

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door – Nintendo

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door – Wikipedia

Night in the Woods – official site

Night in the Woods – Steam

Wandersong – official site

Wandersong – Steam


Other references mentioned

Disco Elysium – Steam

Chicory: A Colorful Tale – official site (Greg Lobanov, also made Wandersong)

826 Valencia – literacy non-profit, San Francisco

Dublin Youth Theatre

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin – Waterstones

Rock, Paper, Shotgun – games journalism

Glenn Moore – Button Boys podcast


Next week's guest

Chris Cantrill – Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show winner 2026 (Rewilding)

Chris Cantrill – Chortle profile

Saturday Night Live UK – ITV


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