Nick Flynn (writer, playwright, and poet) is the author of 13 books, including Low and Some Ether, winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. His best-selling memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro, and has been translated into 15 languages. Stay: Threads, Collaborations, and Conversations documents 25 years of his collaborations with artists, filmmakers, and composers.

Flynn’s poems, essays, and nonfiction have appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review, and on NPR’s This American Life. His film credits include “field poet” and artistic collaborator for the film Darwin’s Nightmare, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best feature documentary in 2006. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress, and spends each spring in residence at the University of Houston, where he is a professor in the Creative Writing Program.