Geffrey Davis

Geffrey Davis was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He studied literature and poetry at Oregon State University and at Pennsylvania State University.

Davis is the author of three books of poetry: 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 fellowships from Bread Loaf, Cave Canem, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Whiting Foundation, Davis is a core faculty member in the Rainier Writing Workshop’s low-residency MFA program and serves as poetry editor for Iron Horse Literary Review. He lives in the Ozarks and teaches for the University of Arkansas’s program in creative writing and translation.