Cal Flyn author biography, plus links to books by Cal Flyn.

Cal Flyn

Cal Flyn is the current Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University, deputy editor of the literary recommendations site Five Books, and has written for publications including The Guardian, Granta, National Geographic, and The Wall Street Journal. Cal is a fellow of MacDowell and Yaddo, has been a writer in residence at Gladstone's Library and at the Jan Michalski Foundation in Switzerland, and was named a 2022 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. She was the winner of the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the John Burroughs Medal and was a finalist for the Wainwright Prize, the British Academy Book Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.

This biography was last updated on 07/28/2026.

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