Nick Flynn (born 1960) is an American writer and poet. He was born and gre up in Scituate, Massachusetts, south of Boston. His parents divorced when he was young and his mother committed suicide when he was 22. Subsequently, he dropped out of Amherst College before getting a degree and began his career as a writer, albeit not in earnest. He drifted through several jobs before starting work at a homeless shelter in Boston. It was there at age 27 that he met his estranged, homeless father for the first time.
Flynn's works have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Fence, The New York Times, and The Paris Review. He has written two collections of poetry: Blind Huber and Some Ether. He also authored A Note Slipped Under the Door with Shirley McPhillips.
Most recently he wrote Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, an account of his tumultuous early life and relationship with his father. In 2001, he won the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.
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