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Listed as:

Fiction Writer, Poet

Public address:

Santa Fe, NM

New Mexico US

Email:

jdavissimo@comcast.net

Bio:

Jon Davis is the author of five chapbooks and six books of poetry, including Improbable Creatures (Grid Books, 2017), Preliminary Report (Copper Canyon, 2010) and Scrimmage of Appetite (University of Akron, 1995). He also co-translated Dayplaces (Tebot Bach, 2015) from the Arabic with author Naseer Hassan. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including a Lannan Literary Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. He founded and directed the Low Residency MFA at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. He occasionally performs as the peripatetic poet Chuck Calabreze.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Born in:

New Haven

Raised in:

Orange, CT

Connecticut

Website:

https://santafelaureate.blogspot.com/ [2]

Prizes won:

Off the Grid Prize, 2017, Cill Rialaig Residency, 2014, Santa Fe Poet Laureate, 2013-14, Lannan Marfa Residency, 2013, Creative Writing Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 2005; Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Contest, 2003; Lannan Literary Award, Lannan Foundation, 1998; Featured Poet, National Poetry Month, Borders Books, 1996; Creative Writing Fellowship, Maryland Arts Council, 1990; Richard Hugo Memorial Award, CutBank Magazine, 1988; G.E. Younger Writers Award, 1987; The Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, The Academy of American Poets, 1987; Creative Writing Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1986; Creative Writing Fellowship, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, 1986-87.

Prefers to work with:

Any