Geffrey Davis Biography

Geffrey Davis (b. 1983) is an American poet and professor. He is the author of Revising the Storm (BOA Editions, 2014).

Work

Revising the Storm won the 2013 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, selected by Dorianne Laux. Davis's honors also include fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, the Dogwood Prize in Poetry, the Leonard Steinberg Memorial/Academy of American Poets Prize, and the Wabash Prize for Poetry. His poems have been published in literary journals and magazines, including Crazyhorse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review, Nimrod International Journal, and Sycamore Review. In 2011, Davis co-founded the journal Toe Good Poetry with Jerry Brunoe and Kevin Hockett.

Life

Davis was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Tacoma, Washington. He earned his B.A. from Oregon State University in 2006 and 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 The Pennsylvania State University. He teaches in The Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing & Translation at the University of Arkansas and lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.