B. 1980
Headshot of poet Adam O. Davis
Photo by Nicholas Barrett

Adam O. Davis is the author of Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande, 2020), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize. The recipient of the 2022 Poetry International Prize and the 2016 George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Davis has received grants and fellowships from The Bishop's School, Columbia University, the New Literary Project, the Prague Summer Program for Writers, and the Vermont Studio Center. His poems have appeared in The Believer, Best American Poetry, the Paris Review, the Poetry Review, the Southern Review, and ZYZZYVA. Davis is cocreator and host of the podcast Poetry Goes to the Movies with Colin Waters. He lives in San Diego where he teaches English literature and composition at The Bishop's School.