Geffrey Davis

Geffrey Davis’s third book of poems, One Wild Word Away, was published by BOA Editions in April 2024. His second collection, Night Angler (BOA Editions 2019), won the James Laughlin Award; and his debut, Revising the Storm (BOA Editions 2014), received the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. A recipient of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, the Porter Fund Literary Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Wabash Prize for Poetry, Davis has also been awarded fellowships from Bread Loaf, Cave Canem, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Whiting Foundation for his involvement with The Prison Story Project, which strives to empower incarcerated women and men to tell their own stories through writing. He currently lives in the Ozarks, where he teaches for the University of Arkansas. Raised by the Pacific Northwest, Davis also serves as core faculty for The Rainier Writing Workshop and as Poetry Editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.