Born in Jackson, Michigan in 1971, Christopher Thor Britt was the youngest of 8 children. After serving in the US Air Force for many years spanning two gulf wars, he now lives with his wife and 12 year old son in South Florida, USA.
Chris studied poetry under Professor Michael Joyce at Jackson College, Michigan. Greatly influenced by 19th Century Romantic writers such as, Thoreau, Emerson, Longfellow, Lord Tennyson and Henley, he writes in the 'language of poetry' often without regard for the modern verbiage of his contemporaries.
His writing style is sometimes cryptic, sometime straight forward, but always honest.
"It is with a feeling of reckless abandon that I throw down now the chains of social expectation, cast off the shadow of the night and discard the many faces of an otherwise duplicitous nature to simply walk naked in the light of the sun; made vulnerable for all to see, but at least... at last... I can breathe.'"
David Flynn
David Flynn was born in 1948 in the textile mill company town of Bemis, TN. He currnetly lives in Nashville, TN, and for three years was president of the Music City Blues Society. He is married and has one daughter.
His jobs have included newspaper reporter, magazine editor and university teacher. He has five degrees and is both a Fulbright Senior Scholar and a Fulbright Senior Specialist currently on the roster. His literary publications total more than one hundred and fifty. Among the eight writing residencies he has been awarded are five at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, NM, and stays in Ireland and Israel. He spent a year in Japan as a member of the Japan Exchange and Teaching program, and recently won the Kintetsu Essay Award.
David Flynn’s writing blog, where he posts a new story and poem every month, is at http://writing-flynn.blogspot.com/
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