Amanda Davis (1971-2003) was born in Durham, North Carolina and received a bachelor’s degree in theater from Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in fiction from Brooklyn College. Davis was a writer and an assistant professor at Mills College in Oakland, where she taught fiction-writing to undergraduates and graduate students. Her writings include Circling the Drain (1999), a collection 15 short stories, and Wonder When You’ll Miss Me (2003), a novel that Davis began writing during her MacDowell residency in 1999. In March 2003, Davis tragically died when the small plane that was taking her on a publicity tour crashed in North Carolina. She was 32 years old and lived in Oakland, California.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Amanda Davis
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Oakland, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999, 2003
More:
www.amandadavis.com
Studios
New Jersey
Amanda Davis worked in the New Jersey studio.
The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…