Photograph by Andrew Kilgore

Geffrey Davis grew up in the Pacific Northwest and studied literature and writing at Oregon State University and Penn State University. His books of poetry include One Wild Word Away, Night Angler, and Revising the Storm, and he co-wrote the chapbook Begotten with poet F. Douglas Brown. His fourth collection, No Good Ghost​, will be published by BOA Editions in Fall 2028.

The recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, Davis has been awarded fellowships from Breadloaf, 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 reclaim their own stories through writing. His poems have been published in The Atlantic, The Nation, New England Review, ​​The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Oxford American, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. 

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