Nick Flynn is the author of This Is the Night Our House Will
Catch Fire (W.W. Norton, 2020) and three previous memoirs,
one of which was turned into the movie Being Flynn, starring
Robert De Niro. He is also the author of five critically
acclaimed volumes of poetry, the most recent being I Will
Destroy You: Poems (Graywolf, 2019). A professor on the
creative writing faculty at the University of Houston, he is
married to actress Lily Taylor, who starred in Mystic Pizza ,
Say Anything , and