Lauren Davis is the author of the short story collection The Nothing (YesYes Books, 2025) and the poetry collections Home Beneath the Church and When I Drowned.

She has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, and others.

Her poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous literary publications and anthologies including Prairie Schooner, Spillway, Poet Lore, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. She won the Landing Zone Magazine’s Flash Fiction Contest.

She has also earned a Harvard Bok Higher Education Teaching Certificate, and she has taught creative writing workshops at places such as Hugo House, Writing Workshops, and the Adirondack Center for Writing. She is the Poet Interview Coordinator and Editorial Assistant for the Two Sylvias’ Weekly Muse.

She holds an MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars.

Contact

LaurenDavisAuthor@gmail.com

Twitter: @WriterLDavis

Instagram: @authorlaurendavis