A white man in a jacket smiling in front of an entrance door
Courtesy of the poet.

Poet Brad Davis was born in San Diego, California. His most recent collection is Trespassing on the Mount of Olives (2021). Other collections include Song of the Drunkards (2007), Opening King David (2011), and Still Working it Out (2014). He has two chapbooks: Short List of Wonders (2005), winner of the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, and Self Portrait w/ Disposable Camera (2012). Individual poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, Paris Review, Michigan Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Brilliant Corners, Image, Connecticut River Review, LETTERS, Presence, and many other journals. In 2012, he edited the anthology Sunken Garden Poetry: 1992-2011 for Hill-Stead Museum, home of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival.

Davis served as an Episcopal priest for 25 years and a boarding school chaplain/teacher for 33 years. He also taught at the College of the Holy Cross, Eastern Connecticut State University, and, most recently, the Stony Brook School. While chaplain and squash coach at Pomfret School in Connecticut, he earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and won an AWP Intro Journal Award. He now lives in Putnam, Connecticut, with his spouse.