Jay Griffiths is a British writer, author of "Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time"; a manifesto for time and against clocks, a polemic against the dreary, playless, life-denying manner in which modernity sees time. It also explores how time is a political subject in terms of environment, gender and race: the book frequently refers to how indigenous people perceive time. "Pip Pip" is translated and published in several languages and won several awards including the Barnes and Noble "Discover" award for the best new non-fiction writer in the USA, 2003, for which her book was cited as "cleverness in the service of genius."

She has recently published her second book, "Wild: An Elemental Journey", which took seven years to research and write. It is an evocation of the songlines of the earth, the result of long journeys among Native people; meeting cannibals; anchoring a boat to an iceberg where polar bears slept; drinking shamanic medicine with Amazonian healers; visiting sea gypsies and journeying to the freedom fighters of West Papua. She is keenly interested in indigenous thought, and writes to challenge the intellectual apartheid of the dominant global culture. The book explores the words and meanings, which shape ideas of wildness, and argues that wild land is intrinsic to the health of the human mind. Above all the book is a manifesto for the essential wildness of the human spirit.

Her work has appeared in various publications including the London Review of Books, the Guardian, the Observer, the Ecologist, New Internationalist, Utne, the Idler and BBC History magazine. She has written for peer-reviewed academic publication and has translated "El Ojo Verde: Cosmovisiones Amazonicas" (The Green Eye: Amazonian Cosmovisions) from Spanish to English. "Anarchipelago", her fiction based on the British anti-roads protests, will be published by Wooden Books.