Jon Davis is the author of six collections of poetry, including Preliminary Report (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), and Scrimmage of Appetite (University of Akron Press, 1995), for which he was honored with a Lannan Literary Award in Poetry. He has also received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Lannan Residency, a Cill Rialaig residency, and a fellowship to The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has scripted short films that have screened at the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival, National Museum of the American Indian Film & Video Festival, The American Indian Film Festival, ImagineNative, and on Movieola: The Short Film Channel in Canada. For four years, he taught screen writing for the Institute of American Indian Arts' ABC/Disney Summer Film & Television Workshops. He has taught at College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, and Salisbury University (Maryland). He is Chair of the Creative Writing Department at the Institute of American Indian Arts, where he has taught since 1990.

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Jon Davis

Writer