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Keith Flynn

Keith Flynn is the founder and managing editor of The Asheville Poetry Review, which was established in 1994. He studied at Mars Hill College and the University of North Carolina- Asheville, winning the Sandburg Prize for Poetry in 1985. He moved to Nashville, TN in 1987 and formed the nationally acclaimed rock band, Crystal Zoo, which has produced three albums: Swimming Through Lake Eerie (1992), Pouch (1995), and the forthcoming Nervous Splendor (2001). Serving as lyricist and lead singer, Flynn was twice awarded the Emerging Songwriter Prize from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1991 and 1992.

His poems have appeared in scores of journals and anthologies around the world including The Carolina Quarterly, The Colorado Review, The Cuirt Journal (Ireland), Defined Providence, New Millennium Writing, Word and Witness: 100 years of North Carolina Poetry, Poetry Wales, Earth and Soul: The Kostroma Anthology (Russia), Rattle, and The Southern Poetry Review. He is author of two previous collections of poetry: The Talking Drum (Metropolis Communications, 1991) and The Book of Monsters (Urthona Press, 1994). In 1996, second editions of his first two books were published and Flynn was awarded the Paumanok Poetry Prize. He lives with his wife, Aimee, in Marshall, North Carolina.