Christy Davids is a poet, a teacher, a birder. Some of her creative and critical work can be found at VOLT, Open House, PennSound, Bedfellows, Jacket2, Dusie, The Tiny, and the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet, among others. She is the author of three chapbooks: on heat (BOAAT Press, 2017), Dysphoric Geography (Neighboring Systems, 2019), and wanton (DoubleCross Press, 2020). In August 2023 she was a poet in residence at Millay Arts, and in April 2024 she was honored with an award for Excellence in Teaching by Temple University.