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American writer, playwright, and poet

Nick Flynn (born January 26, 1960) is an American writer, playwright, and poet.

Nick Flynn was raised by his mother in Scituate, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. Flynn had no contact with his father throughout most of his childhood and adolescence as his parents separated when he was six months old. As a child, he was discouraged from pursuing a writing career because his father had identified himself as a writer to his mother when they first met. Flynn claims that, along with his father's alcoholism, a reason for his parents' separation was his father's "delusion of greatness" directly connected to his being an artist. Flynn first became an electrician instead of a writer after graduating high school, because of the stigma associated with the latter. At 20, he was offered a scholarship to study English at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He studied with Fred Robinson, who was then married to Marilyn Robinson—she would sometimes teach his classes. It was at UMass that Flynn was first exposed to contemporary poetry, in a workshop taught by James Tate. In fall of 1982 Flynn's mother committed suicide. Subsequently unable to continue with his studies, Flynn dropped out of school and ended up working at the Pine Street Inn, a homeless shelter in Boston. He took classes at various colleges and universities over the next several years to finish his undergraduate degree, while living in the Fort Point Channel on a boat he and a friend had renovated. When he was 27, Flynn was unexpectedly reunited with his father at the Pine Street Inn, when his then homeless father showed up as a "guest". At 29, Flynn began therapy, got sober, and began taking poetry workshops, first with Carolyn Forche, then with Marie Howe. The following year he was awarded a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he became friends with Jacqueline Woodson, Tim Seibles, Paul Lisicky, Mark Doty, Stanley Kunitz, Alan Dugan, Carl Phillips, and others. In 1992, he moved to Brooklyn to pursue his Master of Arts in poetry at New York University. At NYU, he studied with Sharon Olds, Phil Levine, Galway Kinnell, William Matthews, and Allen Ginsberg. From 1992 to 1999, he was a member of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University, in which he served as an educator and consultant in New York public schools. He left Brooklyn in 1999 for a second fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, where he finished his first book of poems, Some Ether (2000), begun ten years earlier. That same year he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as an Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Fellowship, which allowed him to live in Rome from 2001 to 2003. While in Rome he finished work on Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, as well as traveling extensively, mainly to Dublin, Paris, and Tanzania. It was in Rome where he met and became friends with Austrian filmmaker Hubert Sauper. Flynn collaborated on Sauper's Academy Awards nominated documentary Darwin's Nightmare—traveling to Tanzania for the filming and to Paris for the editing. Flynn's poems, essays, and nonfiction have been featured in The New Yorker, Paris Review, National Public Radios This American Life, and The New York Times Book Review. Since 2004, Flynn has been a Professor on the Creative Writing faculty at the University of Houston, where he is in residence each Spring, teaching workshops in poetry and interdisciplinary / collaborative art. In 2009, he married his long time partner, actress Lili Taylor. Flynn and Taylor live in Brooklyn with their daughter, Maeve.

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004)
The Ticking Is the Bomb (W. W. Norton & Company, 2010)
The Reenactments (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013)
This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020)

The Book of Poetry for Hard Times, Robert Pinsky, ed. (W. W. Norton & Company, 2021) ["Sudden"]
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects, Kimiko Hahn and Harold Schechter, eds. (Everyman's Library, 2021) ["Workers (Attendants)"]
Tables of Contents Community Cookbook, Evan Hanczor, ed. (2021)
Diario de la Pandemia, Guadalupe Nettel, ed. (Revista de la Universidad de Mexico, 2020) ["Corona"]
Staying Human: New Poems for Staying Alive, Neil Astley, ed. (Bloodaxe Books, 2020) ["The Day Lou Reed Died"]
More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary Self Portrait Poems, Lisa Russ Spaar, ed. (Persea Books, 2020) ["self exam (my body is a cage)"]
The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling, Robert Pinsky, ed. (W. W. Norton & Company, 2019) ["Sudden"]
Eat, Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers, Natalie Eve, Garrett, ed. (Black Balloon Publishing, 2019)
The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers, Brian Turner, ed. (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018) ["The Last Kiss"]
Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing About Knitting. Ann Hood, ed. (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018) ["Wool"]
Brooklyn Poets Anthology, Jason Koo & Joe Pan, eds. (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2017) ["false prophet", etc.] Bullets Into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence, Brian Clements, Alexandra Teague & Dean Rader, eds. (Beacon Press, 2017) ["My Mother Contemplating Her Gun"]
Inheriting the War; Poetry & Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees, Laren McClung, ed. (W. W. Norton, 2017) ["The Fruit of My Deeds"]
Los Hijos de Whitman, Francisco Larios, ed. (Valparaiso, 2017) ["Fisica de los Dibujos Animados, 1st parte"]
The Golden Shovel Anthology: Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, Peter Kahn, Ravi Shakar, & Patricia Smith, eds. (University of Arkansas Press, 2017) ["Sky Burial"]
Renga for Obama, Major Jackson, ed. (Harvard, 2017) [a collaboration with Vievee Francis]
Girls in Trees, Rebecca Godfrey, ed. (limited edition, 2016) ["When I Was a Girl"]
Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Pallative & End of Life Care, Koshin Paley Ellison & Matt Weingast, eds. (Wisdom Press, 2016) ["The Washing of the Body"]
Why We Write About Ourselves, Meredith Maren, ed. (Plume, 2016) [excerpts from The Reenactments / interview]
Nowhere, Porter Fox, ed. (Nowhere Publishing, 2016) ["Chole"]
If Bees Are Few: A Hive of Bee Poems, James P. Lenfestley, ed. (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) ["Hive", etc.] Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poems on Jefferson, Lisa Russ Spaar, ed. (University of Virginia Press, 2016) ["When I Was a Girl"]
A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors, Annie Liontas & Jeff Parker, eds. (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016) ["On Phil Levine"]
Family Resemblances: An Anthology & Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres, Marcela Sulak & Jacqueline Kolosov, eds. (Rose Metal Press, 2015) ["On "Santa Lear""]
Because You Asked: A Book of Answers on the Art & Craft of the Writing Life, Katrina Roberts, ed. (Lost Horse Press, 2015) ["Aftermath"]
365 Poems for Every Occasion, Academy of American Poets / Poem A Day, eds. (Abrams Image, 2015) ["forgetting something", etc.] Words Without Walls: Writers on Addiction, Violence, & Incarceration, Sheryl St. Germain & Sarah Shotland, eds. (Trinity University Press, 2015) ["same again"]
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry, Rita Dove, ed. (Penguin Books, 2013) ["Bag of Mice", etc.] The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief & Healing, Kevin Young, ed. (Bloomsbury USA, 2013) ["Sudden," etc.] The Strangest of Theaters: Poets Writing Across Borders, Jared Hawkley, Susan Rich & Brian Turner, eds. (McSweeneys, 2013) ["Field Poet"]
Death Poems, Russ Kick, ed. (Disinformation Books, 2013) ["My Mother Contemplating Her Gun"]
Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief & Loss, Jessica Handler (ed.) (Griffin, 2013) [excerpts / interviews]
Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine, Mari L'Esperance & Tomas Q. Morin, eds. (Prairie Lights Books, 2013) ["A Light Inside']
American Tensions: Literature of Identity & the Search for Social Justice, William Reichard, ed. (New Village Press, 2011) ["Other Meaning"]
The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry,Sue Ellen Thompson, ed. (Autumn House Press, 2011)
Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book, Sean Manning, ed. (Da Capo Press, 2010) [The Shadow of the Sun, Ryszard Kapuscinski]
The Book of Dads, Ben George, ed. (Harper Perennial, 2009) ["Here Comes the Sun"]
The Best American Non Required Reading, Dave Eggers, ed. (Mariner Books, 2009) [excerpts from The Ticking is the Bomb]
The Show I'll Never Forget, Sean Manning, ed. (Da Capo Press, 2009) ["Mink DeVille at the Paradise, Boston, 1978"]
Crime, Alix Lambert, ed. (Fuel Publishing, 2008) [interview]
Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House, CJ Evans, ed. (Tin House Books, 2008) ["fire", etc.] The Autobiographer's Handbook, Jennifer Trang, ed. (Holt Paperback, 2008) [interview]
Sex for America: Politically Inspired Erotica, Stephen Elliott, ed. (Harper Perennial, 2008) ["A Crystal Formed Entirely of Holes"]
Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure, Rachel Fershleiser & Larry Smith, eds. (Harper Perennial, 2008)
State of the Union: 50 Political Poems, Joshua Beckman & Matthew Zapruder, eds. (Wave Books, 2008) ["imagination"]
The Book of Irish American Poetry: From the 18th Century to the Present, Daniel Tobin, ed. (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007)
Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry, Robert Strong , ed. (Autumn House Press, 2006)
Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, Cate Marvin & Michael Dumanis, eds. (Sarabande Books, 2006) ["swarm", etc.] Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets, Brett Fletcher Lauer & Aimee Kelley, eds. (Wave Books, 2004)
The Future Dictionary of America, Dave Eggers, ed. (McSweeney's Books, 2004), ["jubilee","homeless","pokey","maximum wage"]
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, Billy Collins, ed. (Random House, 2003) ["Cartoon Physics, part 1"]
Sweet Jesus: Poems about the Ultimate Icon, Nick Carbo & Denise Duhamel, eds. (Anthology Press, 2002) ["Emptying Town"]
The New American Poets, Michael Collier, ed. (Breadloaf, 2000)
American Poetry: The Next Generation, Gerard Constanzo & Jim Daniels, eds. (Carnegie Mellon, 2000)