Photograph by Hamilton Matthew Masters

Geffrey Davis grew up in the Pacific Northwest and studied literature and writing at Oregon State University and Penn State University. He 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 the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Davis also co-authored the chapbook Begotten with poet F. Douglas Brown.

A recipient of fellowships from Breadloaf, Cave Canem, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center, Davis's poems have been published by The Atlantic, The Nation, New England Review, ​​The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Oxford American, Ploughshares, POETRY Magazine, and elsewhere. He's also been awarded the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, the Dogwood Prize in Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, the Porter Fund Literary Prize, the Wabash Prize for Poetry, and a public engagement fellowship from 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.

Davis currently lives in the Ozarks and teaches with University of Arkansas's Program in Creative Writing & Translation. He is also core faculty at The Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University's low-residency MFA program, and serves as poetry editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.