Nick Flynn

Nick Flynn (born 1960) is an American writer, playwright, and poet. His most recent publication is a play, Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins.^[1] Previous books include a memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, and two collections of poetry: Blind Huber, and Some Ether, which won the inaugural PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Biography

He was born and grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts, south of Boston. His parents divorced when he was young and his mother committed suicide when he was 22. He drifted through several jobs before starting work at a homeless shelter in Boston, where at age twenty-seven, he met his estranged, homeless father for the first time.^[2] Flynn earned an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from New York University and teaches part-time at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. He used to teach at Columbia University, where he was a poet and educator.^[3] His long-time partner is actress Lili Taylor, with whom he shares a home in New York.^[4]

Flynn's works have appeared in New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, American Poetry: The Next Generation, The New Yorker, The Nation, Fence, The New York Times, and The Paris Review.^[5]

Awards

• 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship^[6]
• 2001 Witter Bynner Fellowship
• 2001 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
• 1999 Discovery/The Nation Award for his poem, Bag of Mice, about his mother's suicide.^[7][8]
• 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award^[9]
• 1999 Larry Levis Prize (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Bibliography

Poetry collections

• Some Ether: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2000)
• Blind Huber: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2002)
• The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands (Graywolf Press, 2011)

Memoir

• Another Bullshit Night in Suck City : A Memoir (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004)
• The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir (W.W. Norton, 2010)^[10]

Textbooks

• A Note Slipped Under the Door: Teaching from Poems We Love (Stenhouse Publishers, 2000, co-authored with Shirley McPhillips)

Plays

• Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins: A Play (Faber & Faber, 2008)

Miscellaneous

• Crossroads (2001), with Josh Neufeld

References

1. ^ Faber & Faber > Nick Flynn Author Page
2. ^ IdentityTheory.com > March 22, 2005 > Author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Converses with Robert Birnbaum
3. ^ Academy of American Poets > Nick Flyn Biography
4. ^ Lili Taylor takes "indie" to a new level — TV The Seattle Times > Entertainment > Lili Taylor Takes "Indie" to a New Level - TV > July 14, 2007 > by Luaine Lee for McClatchy-Tribuen News Service
5. ^ Author Website > Bio
6. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation > Fellows > Nick Flynn
7. ^ Rose and Thorn > Book Review > Staff Pick by Cesar Garza: Some Ether
8. ^ Author's Booking Agency: Blue Flower Arts > Nick Flynn Biography
9. ^ PEN American Center > Poetry > Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry > Previous Winners
10. ^ Amazon.com > The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir by Nick Flynn

External links

• Author Website > Bio
• Poems: Graywolf Press > Nick Flynn Author Page > Three Poems from Some Ether
• Poems: Poetry Foundation > Poems by Nick Flynn
• Interview with Anthem Magazine
• Audio Interview: NPR > New Hampshire Public Radio > Word of Mouth > Nick Flynn at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival > By Virginia Prescott > Thursday, October 9, 2008
• Interview: IdentityTheory.com > March 22, 2005 > Author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Converses with Robert Birnbaum
• Profile: Union Times > University at Albany - NY State Writers Institute > Broken Homes Author Chronicles Surviving a Father's Tragic Legacy by Casey Seiler > September 19, 2004
• Author Page: Nick Flynn > Faber & Faber
• Author Page: Nick Flynn > W.W. Norton
• Author's Booking Agency: Blue Flower Arts > Nick Flynn Biography

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