Brad Davis

Brad Davis (MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts; MDiv, Trinity School for Ministry) taught Creative Writing at Pomfret School, The College of Holy Cross, Eastern Connecticut State University, and, most recently, The Stony Brook School, where he was also Dean of Faculty Care. While chaplain and squash coach at Pomfret School, he earned the MFA and won an AWP Intro Journal Award. Since then, poems have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, Michigan Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Brilliant Corners, Image, LETTERS, Presence, Spiritus, JAMA, and many other wonderful journals. His chapbook, Short List of Wonders (Hill-Stead, 2005) was selected by Dick Allen as winner of the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. A second chapbook, Self Portrait w/ Disposable Camera (Finishing Line, 2012) was twice a finalist: Black River and White Eagle Coffee Store competitions. A third, Of All Places, was a finalist in the Slate Roof chapbook contest. He has published four books with Antrim House and three with Wipf & Stock. His most recent, Still Working It Out (2014) and Trespassing on the Mount of Olives (2021), are included in the Poiema Poetry Series. In 2024, Grayson Books published his tenth collection of poems, On the Way to Putnam: New, Selected, & Early Poems.