Dave Griffith is the author of A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America (Soft Skull Press), a collection of essays meditating on how images of violence in film, literature, popular culture, and news media shape our collective understanding of violence as a means of solving problems. Widely and favorably reviewed--most notably in The New York Times--Time Out Chicago called it “... a massively forceful piece of criticism.”

For 25 years, Griffith has worked as an educator and artistic collaborator creating interdisciplinary arts and creative writing programs where students of all abilities feel empowered to take creative risks, collaborate with peers, and arrive at a deeper understanding of themselves and the communities they live in.

Formerly the Director of Creative Writing at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, and Director of Creative Writing at the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts, Griffith also founded BLUR: The Blue Ridge Summer Institute for Young Artists at Sweet Briar College, and, most recently, 574 Stories, a summer creative writing workshop for high school students enrolled in South Bend Community Schools.

Griffith is Assistant Advising Professor at the University of Notre Dame, where he specializes in academic support for first-year students and acts as the dedicated adviser to the Glynn Family Honors Program, and is an Affiliate Faculty member in the Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values, where he teaches a course titled “Writer as Physician; Physician as Writer,” an introduction to Narrative Medicine, in the Health, Humanities, and Society program.

Griffith's essays and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Another Chicago Magazine, The New England Review, Utne Reader, The Normal School, Image, and Creative Nonfiction, and on-line at the Paris Review, Belt Magazine, Killing the Buddha, Essay Daily, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Church Life Journal, and Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies.

He is currently at work on two books Pyramid Scheme: Making Art and Being Broke in America, a memoir-in-essays, and The Artificial O'Connor, a book of critical essays on the fight over the legacy of Flannery O'Connor.