Todd Davis is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Ditch Memory: New & Selected Poems and Coffin Honey, both published by Michigan State University Press. His writing has won the Midwest Book Award and the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, among other awards. His poems appear in American Poetry Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Iowa Review, North American Review, and Orion. While never leaving behind the tragedies and joys of the human world, Davis’s work seeks to address the living world through a lens of transformation and celebration of the more-than-human natural world. In poems of praise and lament that draw upon the classical Chinese rivers-and-mountains tradition and the narrative traditions of Appalachian poetry, Davis chronicles the creatures of forest and sky, of streams and lakes, moving through cycles of fecundity and lack, paying witness to the fundamental processes of the earth that offer the possibility of regeneration, even resurrection. He lives along the Allegheny Front and teaches environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College.

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