Lauren Davis

Lauren M. Davis attended the University of Southern Maine to obtain her Masters of Fine Art in creative writing with a concentration in poetry and alternative pedagogy for literacy. Work from her poetry collections Sleeping Through the Earthquake and Women Bones have appeared in numerous literary journals and an anthology. She teaches and has taught creative writing, English writing, and philosophy at several universities. She has appeared as a genre editor for the Stonecoast Review, and works as a freelance writer for a variety of businesses and non-profits. She designed, wrote, and taught Poetry Through Literacy, a curriculum for illiterate adults, worked as an artist for Artlink’s CSA project, and was the writer in residence in Washington State’s Hypatia in the Woods in 2016. In 2017, she attended Naropa University's summer writing program through the Jack K. School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado and was the Keynote Speaker at the Poet Society of Indiana's annual conference in October 2017 . In addition to her work as a professor, she works for Spark Placemaking as a Placemaking Coordinator for Electric Works of Fort Wayne promoting arts, culture, outdoor activity, local food initiatives, and community.