Geffrey Davis

Geffrey Davis
Davis in 2013
Born	1983 Seattle, Washington
Occupation	Poet, Professor
Nationality	American
Education	Oregon State University; Penn State University

Geffrey Davis (born 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,^[1] and was named a finalist for the 2015 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.^[2] Davis has received the Anne Halley Poetry Prize,^[3] the Dogwood Prize in Poetry,^[4] the Leonard Steinberg Memorial/Academy of American Poets Prize,^[5] the Wabash Prize for Poetry,^[6] and fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation.^[7] His poems have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines, including Crazyhorse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review, The New York Times Magazine, Nimrod International Journal, and Sycamore Review.^[8] In 2011, Davis co-founded the journal Toe Good Poetry with Jerry Brunoe and Kevin Hockett.^[9]

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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.^[10]

Bibliography

Revising the Storm. BOA Editions. 2014. ISBN 978-1-938160288.

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