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Geffrey Davis is the author of three books of poems, most recently One Wild Word Away (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2024). Davis's second book, Night Angler (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2019), received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and his debut, Revising the Storm (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2014), received the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and was a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist. His poems have been published by The Atlantic, New England Review, ​​The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Orion Magazine​, Oxford American, PBS NewsHour, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Raised by the Pacific Northwest, he served as Poetry Editor for Iron Horse Literary Review and is a core faculty member of The Rainier Writing Workshop. Davis currently lives in the Ozarks, where he teaches full-time with the Program in Creative Writing & Translation at the University of Arkansas.

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