Cal Flyn is the deputy editor of the literary recommendations site Five Books, is a regular contributor to The Guardian, and has written for Granta, National Geographic, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Cal was a MacDowell fellow, a writer in residence at Gladstone’s Library and at the Jan Michalski Foundation in Switzerland and 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.
