Francis Flavin is a poet and writer who draws upon his experience as an educator, hockey player, fish and game field worker, public interest lawyer, governmental investigator, and adventurer on four continents. He has been a successful advocate for civil and indigenous rights.
Flavin’s poetry has been published in Poetry Quarterly, Blueline, Pacific Review, Blue Collar Review, La Piccioletta Barca, WestWard Quarterly, Poets Choice, and on the websites of the Society of Classical Poets and the Adirondack Center for Writing. He has received awards in humor and flash fiction in the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, Summer Poetry Contest of Wingless Dreamer, and social impact in the Chicagoland Poetry Contest.
A graduate of the University of Alaska and Colorado Law School, Flavin’s legal, educational and writing careers have focused on the rights of people in poverty and racial and ethnic minorities, particularly indigenous peoples. He has extensive experience working with Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Athabascan, Dena’ina, Alutiiq, Tlingit and Haida peoples in Alaska, and Paiute and Shoshone people in Nevada. Flavin’s work with Alaska Natives in the Kenai Peninsula and Bristol Bay areas of Alaska led to his interest in early Russian immigration that formed the premise of The Muse in a Time of Madness.
Flavin has extensive community educational experience as an outreach coordinator for the Cooperative Extension arm of Cornell University and the Norther Area Director of the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension. He is Faculty Emeritus at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Tempered Runes Press Contributions
“Manila Rising” – Poem – Volume 1, Number 1 of Bluing the Blade