About
Carolyn Brigit Flynn is a writer dedicated to language as a pathway to soul and spirit. As an artist, writer and educator, she infuses her work with the intention to serve the spirits of healing for humanity and the earth. As a teacher, she provides a powerful container for writers to generate new work from the depth of their souls.
Her poems and essays have appeared in literary journals and anthologies nationwide, including Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, The Pedestal Magazine, Porter Gulch Review, Black Buzzard Review, Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure, Inside Grief: Death, Loss and Bereavement and New to North America. She is the editor of Sisters Singing: Blessings, Prayers, Art, Songs, Poetry and Sacred Stories by Women, and The New Story: Creation Myths for Our Times.
Carolyn grew up in Washington, D.C., the daughter of a first-generation Irish-American father and a mother whose maternal line had been in America since before the Revolutionary War. The questions of blood, ancestors, memory–the stories that families tell and those they do not tell–have been at the center of her concern as a writer and teacher since she began twenty-three years ago.
Carolyn received her B.A. from George Washington University and her M.A. from UCLA. She studied the craft and soul of writing with poet, novelist and medicine woman Deena Metzger, her long time friend and mentor. She studied dream work with Stephen Aisenstat, President of Pacifica Graduate Institute, and the esoteric Tarot with Pamela Eakins of Tarot of the Spirit. Carolyn spent the last three years working with the shamanic worlds with the shaman Valerie Wolf/Grandmother White Bear of Topanga, California.
Many years ago Carolyn discovered a profound affiliation with the ancient stones of Ireland. She periodically brings groups of writers and artists to enter the presence of these venerable beings, and to journey into the soul and spirit of Ireland through writing, art and storytelling.
Carolyn lives near the ocean in California with her spouse, three cats, redwood trees, spirits, and ancestors. She teaches ongoing writing groups, and offers writing retreats in the Santa Cruz Mountains and in Ireland.