Geffrey Davis is the author of Night Angler (BOA Editions), winner of the 2018 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Revising the Storm ​(BOA Editions), winner of the 2013 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. He also coauthored the chapbook Begotten (URB Books, 2016) with LA-based poet F. Douglas Brown.Named a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Davis has received the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, the Dogwood Prize in Poetry, and the Wabash Prize for Poetry, as well as fellowships from Bread Loaf, Cave Canem, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Whiting Foundation. His words have appeared in Crazyhorse​, ​Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, New England Review, ​New York Times Magazine,The New Yorker, PBS NewsHour, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere.​A native of the Pacific Northwest, Davis lives with his family in Fayetteville, AR. He teaches at the University of Arkansas and with The Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran's low-residency MFA program. Davis also serves as poetry editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.

Website: www.geffreydavis.com

Twitter Username: @GeffreyDavis

Publications

• Revising the Storm , BOA Editions, Ltd. (2014)

Awards

• NEA Fellowship(2019)
• James Laughlin Award(2018)
• A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize (2013)
• Anne Halley Poetry Prize (2013)
• Dogwood First Prize in Poetry (2013)
• Wabash Prize for Poetry (2012)
• Leonard Steinberg Memorial/Academy of American Poets Prize (2012)

Employment

• Professor at University of Arkansas (August 2014 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English from Oregon State University (2006)
• Master of Arts in English from Penn State University (2009)
• Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Penn State University (2012)
• Doctoral Degree in English from Penn State University (August 2014)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry