Jon Davis is the author of six chapbooks and eight full-length poetry collections, including, most recently, Above the Bejeweled City (Grid Books, 2021), Choose Your Own America (Finishing Line 2022), and Fearless Now & Nameless (Grid Books, 2025). 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 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; Telling Stories: A Writer's Anthology; and In the Footsteps of a Shadow:
North American Literary Responses to Fernando Pessoa; 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, Oregon Literary Review, and 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 teaching and editing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Email jondavisedit@gmail.com for details.