Scott Griffin is Chairman and major shareholder of two manufacturing companies and the owner of House of Anansi Press Inc. He is Chairman and Trustee of The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry and Chancellor of Bishop's University. He is on several NGO boards, including the AMREF International Board based in Nairobi, Kenya. He is married to Krystyne Griffin and has four children and eight grandchildren. All royalties from the sale of My Heart is Africa will be donated to the AMREF Flying Doctors Service.