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 (Faber & Faber, 2008). His most recent
book is a memoir,
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City,
(
W.W. Norton,
2004). He has published 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. Further honors include a 2001
Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2001
Amy Lowell Poetry
Travelling Scholarship, and the 1999 Discovery/The Nation Award
for his poem,
Bag of Mice, about his mother's
suicide.
Flynn's works have appeared in
The
New Yorker, The
Nation, Fence, The New York Times, and
The Paris Review. 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.
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. His
long-time partner is actress
Lili
Taylor, with whom he shares a home in New York.
Bibliography
Poetry Collections
Memoir
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)
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