Geffrey Davis

Geffrey Davis is the author of One Wild Word Away (BOA Editions, 2024); Night Angler (BOA Editions, 2019), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and Revising the Storm (BOA Editions, 2014), winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and a finalist for The Legacy/Zora Award in Poetry. A recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Bread Loaf, Cave Canem, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Whiting Foundation, Davis has poems published or forthcoming in The Atlantic, The Nation, New England Review, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Orion Magazine, Oxford American, Ploughshares, and Poetry Magazine. Raised by the Pacific Northwest, he teaches creative writing at University of Arkansas, is core faculty of The Rainier Writing Workshop, and serves as Poetry Editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.

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