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Geffrey Davis
Davis in 2013
Born	1983 Seattle, Washington
Occupation	Poet, Professor
Nationality	American
Education	Oregon State University; Penn State University
Website
www.geffreydavis.com

Geffrey Davis (born 1983) is an American poet and professor. He is the author of Revising the Storm (2014) and Night Angler (2019). He teaches in The Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas and lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He also serves on the poetry faculty at the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.

Personal life and education

Davis was born in Seattle, Washington in 1983 and graduated from Stadium High School, a public school in Tacoma, Washington, in 2001.

Davis earned his B.A. from Oregon State University in 2006. As an undergraduate student, Davis first double majored in zoology and photography. As an English major at Oregon State, he took creative writing courses from the poets Joseph Millar and David Biespiel and from the fiction writer Marjorie Sandor.

After taking a year off after graduation, Davis worked at a grocery store until he moved to State College, Pennsylvania, where he received three graduate degrees—an M.A. in English (2009), an M.F.A. in Poetry (2012), and a Ph.D. in English (2014)—from Pennsylvania State University.

As a graduate student, Davis was enrolled in the MA/PhD track, which focused on studying and writing critically about literature. After completing the Master of Arts (MA) degree in English in 2009, the poet Robin Becker, who was a professor of creative writing at Penn State at the time, invited Davis to join the creative writing program in poetry. He became dually enrolled in both the PhD program and the MFA program. He completed the MFA degree in 2012, under the mentorship of poets Robin Becker and Julia Kasdorf. His first book, Revising the Storm, began as his MFA thesis and was revised heavily over the next two years.

While a graduate student at Penn State, Davis joined Cave Canem Foundation. He was a fellow of Cave Canem in 2012 and 2013.

Awards and honors

Revising the Storm won the 2013 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, selected by Dorianne Laux, and was named a finalist for the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Davis has received the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, the Dogwood Prize in Poetry, the Leonard Steinberg Memorial/Academy of American Poets Prize, the Wabash Prize for Poetry, and fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation. His poems have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines, including Crazyhorse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review, The New York Times Magazine, Nimrod International Journal, and Sycamore Review. In 2011, Davis co-founded the journal Toe Good Poetry with Jerry Brunoe and Kevin Hockett. In 2018, he received a fellowship from the prestigious Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

His second book of poetry, Night Angler (BOA Editions, 2019) won the 2018 James Laughlin Award, a second-book prize from the Academy of American Poets.

Bibliography

• —— (2014). Revising the Storm. BOA Editions. ISBN 9781938160288.
• —— (2019). Night Angler. BOA Editions. ISBN 9781942683780.

Adaptations

• "From 35,000 Feet / Praise Aviophobia" was adapted into a short film by Motion Poems, directed by Chad Howitt.

External links

• Geffrey Davis's Faculty Page at The University of Arkansas
• Poet Profile: Academy of American Poets > Poets > Geffrey Davis

References

1. "The Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing & Translation > Faculty". Archived from the original on 2015-03-01. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
2. "Faculty | MFA - Creative Writing | PLU". www.plu.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-29.
3. "Geffrey Davis". Cave Canem. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
4. "BOA Editions > Book Listing > Revising the Storm". Archived from the original on 2015-02-23. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
5. "Hurston-Wright Foundation" > 2015 Legacy Awards
6. The Massachusetts Review > ″Geffrey Davis Named the 10th Annual Anne Halley Prize Winner″
7. Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose > ″Dogwood 2013 Contest Winners″
8. Academy of American Poets > Poets > Geffrey Davis
9. "Sycamore Review > ″2012 Wabash Poetry Prize Results!″". Archived from the original on 2015-02-23. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
10. "Cave Canem Foundation > Fellows". Archived from the original on 2015-02-23. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
11. Poets & Writers > Directory of Writers
12. Toe Good Poetry > Mission and History
13. "Geffrey Davis - "From 35,000 Feet / Praise Aviophobia" (Motionpoems)". Button Poetry. 2018-01-12. Retrieved 2018-12-29.

• American male poets
• African-American poets
• Poets from Washington (state)
• Writers from Seattle
• Living people
• 1983 births
• University of Arkansas faculty
• People from Fayetteville, Arkansas
• 21st-century American poets
• 21st-century American male writers
• 21st-century African-American writers
• African-American male writers
• Pacific Lutheran University faculty
• Stadium High School alumni