Background
Griffioen was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and attended Western Michigan University, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Michigan Law School.
Griffioen was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and attended Western Michigan University, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Michigan Law School.
University of Michigan. Western Michigan University. University of Michigan Law School.
He is the main contributor to the blog Sweet Juniper. After practicing law in San Francisco, California, in 2006, Griffioen moved with his family to Detroit, Michigan where he now considers himself a "Gentleman of Elegant Leisure." Griffioen"s blog earns ad revenue through Federated Media Publishing. Griffioen"s photography has appeared in Harper"s Magazine, Vice Magazine, The Baffler, Time, Fortune, Landscape Architecture Magazine, CS Interiors, New York Magazine, Boing Boing, The New Yorker.com, and The Atlantic.com.
Griffioen is known for his photographs of Detroit, Michigan.
His essays have appeared in several books, including "Long Live the Weeds and the Wilderness Yet" in Things I Learned About My Dad: In Therapy, edited by Heather B. Armstrong # # and "El Corazon" in What I Would Tell Her, edited by Andrea North. Richesin # #. Griffioen has appeared as a guest on American Public Media"s The Story with Dick Gordon, as well as the British Broadcasting Corporation"s program Americana and Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio One"s arts program Q.
