Nick Flynn

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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).[1] 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,[2] 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.[3][4]

Flynn's works have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Fence, The New York Times, and The Paris Review.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7] His long-time partner is actress Lili Taylor, with whom he shares a home in New York.[8]

Contents

[edit] 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)

[edit] Honors & Awards

[edit] References

  1. ^ Faber & Faber > Nick Flynn Author Page
  2. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation > Fellows > Nick Flynn
  3. ^ Rose and Thorn > Book Review > Staff Pick by Cesar Garza: Some Ether
  4. ^ Author's Booking Agency: Blue Flower Arts > Nick Flynn Biography
  5. ^ Author Website > Bio
  6. ^ IdentityTheory.com > March 22, 2005 > Author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Converses with Robert Birnbaum
  7. ^ Academy of American Poets > Nick Flyn Biography
  8. ^ 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
  9. ^ Amazon.com > The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir by Nick Flynn
  10. ^ PEN American Center > Poetry > Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry > Previous Winners

[edit] External links

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