Nick Flynn is an American poet and nonfiction writer. His memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (W. W. Norton, 2004) has been translated into ten languages, and received the PEN/ Martha Albrand Award. His most recent book, a work of nonfiction called The Ticking Is the Bomb, was published by W. W. Norton in 2010. A new collection of poems, The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands, is forthcoming from Graywolf in February.