Jon Davis

Jon Davis is the author of six chapbooks and seven full-length poetry collections, including, most recently, Above the Bejeweled City (Grid Books, 2021) and Choose Your Own America (Finishing Line 2022). Davis also co-translated Iraqi poet Naseer Hassan’s Dayplaces (Tebot Bach, 2017). He has received a Lannan Literary Award, the Lavan Prize from the Academy of American Poets, a Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies, including A House Called Tomorrow: Fifty Years of American Poetry, Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic; Poetry is Bread; Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene; Poet’s Choice; Sixty Years of American Poetry; The Best of the Prose Poem; No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets; and Telling Stories: A Writer's Anthology and have been translated into Spanish, Arabic, KiSwahili, and Vietnamese. His own translations have appeared in Two Lines, Waxwing, Drunken Boat, Taos Journal of Poetry & Art, The Literary Review, and Diode. Davis’s short stories have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, Flash, Versal, The Stockholm Review, Barrelhouse, Platte Valley Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Salt Hill, A-Minor, failbetter, and the anthologies Flash Fiction Funny and Funny Bone. Short films made from his scripts have been screened at ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Festival, The Santa Fe Film Festival, National Geographic All Roads Film Festival, the National Museum of the American Indian Native American Film and Video Festival, the American Indian Film Festival, and on Canada’s Channel One. His one-act play, Anna Without Angels, was given a staged reading by Umbrella Hat Theater Company of New York. He edited the literary journals CutBank, Shankpainter, and Countermeasures, and guest-edited for Provincetown Arts, the Oregon Literary Review, and the Iowa Review. He taught creative writing and literature for thirty years, two at Salisbury University and twenty-eight at the Institute of American Indian Arts. In 2013, he founded the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing at IAIA, which he directed until his retirement in 2018. From 2012-2014, he served as the City of Santa Fe’s fourth poet laureate.Since retiring, he has been editing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Email [email protected] for details.