Adam O. Davis

Adam O. Davis is the author of Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande, 2020), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Poetry. The recipient of the 2016 George Bogin Award from the Poetry Society of America, Davis has received grants and fellowships from Columbia University, the New Literary Project, the Prague Summer Program for Writers, and Vermont Studio Center. His poems have appeared in many journals, including The Believer, The Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and ZYZZYVA. He is also the co-creator and host of Poetry Goes to the Movies, a podcast dedicated to verse and film. A graduate of the University of California, Riverside and Columbia University, Davis lives in San Diego, California where he teaches English literature at The Bishop’s School. He was also once hit by lightning. It felt, more or less, like you'd expect.