Bio
A former high school teacher and journalist, Larry Flynn is now an instructor and prose candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s MFA for Poets & Writers. His writing is published or forthcoming in New Letters, Michigan Quarterly Review, West Branch, Terrain, StoryQuarterly, The Greensboro Review, Consequence, The Normal School, Portland Review, Sports Illustrated, several Massachusetts newspapers, and others. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conferences (2021, 2022), Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism (2018), and UMass Amherst’s School of Earth and Sustainability (2023); he has also served as a Klingenstein Fellow at Columbia University’s Teachers College (2021), an Institute Fellow at the Juniper Institute for Writers (2024), and a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center (2025). He has attended workshops at Tin House (2023) and The Kenyon Review Writers Workshops (2021). His poetry was listed as a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize (2024), and his prose has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2019), selected as Honorable Mention for the Cara Parravani Memorial Award in Fiction (2023 & 2024), and listed as a semi-finalist for the Marianne Russo Award for Emerging Writers (2024). He received degrees from Villanova University (BA) and Northwestern University (MS), where he reported and produced a documentary selected as a finalist for a Midwest/Chicago Emmy (2018). He has taught English, creative writing, humanities, and journalism in various school year and summer programming at UMass Amherst, Culver Academies, Northfield Mount Hermon School, and Phillips Academy Andover. He is writing a collection of stories, a novel, and a book of poetry.
Contact: bylarryflynn [at] gmail or leflynn [at] umass [dot] edu