Discipline: Literature – poetry

Christopher Davis

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Charlotte, NC
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999

Christopher Davis is the author of A History of the Only War (2005), The Tyrant of the Past and the Slave of the Future, which received the 1988 Associated Writing Programs Poetry Award, and The Patriot, which appeared in 1998 in the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series. His poems have appeared in many journals, including American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Harvard Review, and The Journal and in several anthologies. Born in Los Angeles, he received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in 1985 and is now an associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Studios

Barnard

Christopher Davis worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…

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