Albert Flynn DeSilver (born October 2, 1968) is an American poet, writer, memoirist, novelist, speaker, publisher, and workshop leader. He is the founder of DeSilver Publishing, a hybrid publisher based in the San Francisco Bay Area that publishes memoir, fiction, spirituality, family legacy, and other books.https://albertflynndesilver.com/publishing
His latest book is SOME VOID: New & Selected Poems 1996-2026. DeSilver has been writing and publishing books for 30 years, starting with his The Owl Press imprint in the 1990s. DeSilver served as Marin County California's very first Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010.http://www.pw.org/content/marin_county_poet_laureate_creates_poetry_chair_literally
His work has appeared in more than one hundred literary journals worldwide including The New York Times, ZYZZYVA, New American Writing, Chicago Review, Catamaran, Hanging Loose, Jubilat, Exquisite Corpse, Jacket (Australia), Poetry Kanto (Japan), Van Gogh’s Ear (France), and many others.https://albertflynndesilver.com/albert-flynn-desilver
DeSilver is also the author of Writing as a Path to Awakening (based on his workshops of the same name) published by Sounds True/Macmillan in 2017, as well as the memoir Beamish Boy, (2012) which Kirkus Reviews called "a beautifully written memoir, poignant and inspirational".https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/albert-flynn-desilver/beamish-boy-vZlThToT/ DeSilver received a BFA in photography from the University of Colorado and an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute.https://albertflynndesilver.com/albert-flynn-desilver DeSilver is a speaker and trainer who has presented at TEDx-Santa Cruz,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNHAHBiM5e0&t=5s shared the stage with Maxine Hong Kingston, Cheryl Strayed, Elizabeth Gilbert, and others. He has taught writing workshops at Esalen Institute, Omega Institute, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center, as well as at literary conferences nationally. He lives in Northern California.https://albertflynndesilver.com/albert-flynn-desilver
Bibliography
Evidence of the Paranormal (2003, editor) With poems by Anne Waldman, Eileen Myles, John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Joanne Kyger, and others. Letters to Early Street (2007, ) Walking Tooth & Cloud (2008, ) Beamish Boy, A Memoir (2013, ) Writing as a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer & Living an Awakened Life (Sounds True/Macmillan, 2017, ) Singletrack Mind: Finding Wisdom & the Poetry of Life on Two Wheels (2023) with photographs by Mattias Fredriksson () SOME VOID: New & Selected Poems 1996-2026 (2026, )
Anthologies Cloud View Poets, An Anthology with an introduction by David St. John (Arctos Press, 2009) Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics, and Community (Saturnalia Books, 2008) Sometimes in the Open: Poems from California’s Poets Laureate (Sacramento Poetry Center Press, 2009) Featuring poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, Al Young, and Albert Flynn DeSilver among others. Bay Poetics: An Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poets Edited by Stephanie Young (Faux Press, Cambridge, MA 2006)
References
External links Official website Artist Index Goodreads Pre-publication Review of Writing as a Path to Awakening Letter Poem Using Personification DeSilver's Bio from the San Francisco Art Institute http://www.pw.org/content/poetry_beginning_twelve_poets_who_got_things_going_2007 http://www.pw.org/content/marin_county_poet_laureate_creates_poetry_chair_literally https://www.marinij.com/2012/10/09/woodacre-poet-albert-flynn-desilver-pens-raw-memoir-of-his-troubled-past/ TEDx Santa Cruz DeSilver on MarinArts.org