Todd Davis

Todd Davis is the author of seven full-length poetry collections—Coffin Honey (2022), Native Species (2019), Winterkill (2016), In the Kingdom of the Ditch (2013), The Least of These (2010), Some Heaven (2007), and Ripe (2002). Davis also wrote a limited-edition chapbook, Household of Water, Moon, & Snow (2010). He edited the nonfiction collection Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball (2012) and coedited the anthology Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets (2010).

Davis’s writing has won the Midwest Book Award, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, the Bloomsburg University Book Prize, and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Silver and Bronze Awards. His poems appear in such journals and magazines as American Poetry Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Barrow Street, Iowa Review, North American Review, Missouri Review, Gettysburg Review, Orion, Poetry Northwest, Willow Springs, Sycamore Review, Verse Daily, and Poetry Daily.

Davis teaches environmental studies, creative writing, and American literature at Penn State Altoona.