Geffrey Davis is the author of 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), which won an A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, ​Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, New England Review, ​New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, PBS NewsHour, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.

Named a finalist for the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in poetry, Davis has received an Anne Halley Poetry Prize, a Dogwood First Prize in Poetry, a Wabash Prize for Poetry, a Leonard Steinberg Memorial/Academy of American Poets Prize, and fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation and the Penn State Humanities Institute.

A native of the Pacific Northwest, Davis currently lives with his family in the Ozarks. He teaches with the Program in Creative Writing & Translation at the University of Arkansas and with the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran’s low-residency MFA program. Davis also serves as poetry editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.