Kristin W. Davis
Poetry
Featured Publications
Finalist, The Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, 2023
“The Other End of Poetry”
“Bitterroot”
“In My Willowbrook Dream”
“Margin Notes”
“Fish Ladder at Damariscotta”
March 1, 2024
“Dandelion on the Lawn”
“Green Willow”
“On Reading ‘The Ones We Sent Away’”
“The Sun Knows Best”
Summer 2023
“gashes, burns, frac-tures, bruises”
“They simply did not know”
First Place, Creators of Justice Award, 2022
Pushcart Prize nominee
“Growing Up Over Stone”
Third Place, Anne Spencer Memorial Prize, 2023
“The Consolation of Stones”
Second Place, Joanne Scott Kennedy Memorial Prize, 2023
“Ode to the Inchworm”
Winter/Spring 2020:
“Bells of Ireland”
“Desert Bones”
“Ubi Caritas”
“Edges”
“College Visits”
“Delicate Things”
“Growing Colder”
“No Such Thing As Silence” (Pushcart Prize nominee)
About
Kristin W. Davis is a poet, essayist, and journalist. Her recent work includes a collection of documentary poems and essays about Willowbrook State School, a defunct institution on Staten Island, NY, for people with intellectual and other disabilities that became notorious for the human rights abuses that took place there.
Kristin grew up in Rockland County, NY, and Atlanta, Ga., and currently divides her time between Washington, DC, and Naples, Me. She spent most of her journalism career as a writer and editor at Kiplinger’s Magazine, where her column Your Family Finances was nationally syndicated by the New York Times. Her book Financing College was published in three editions, and she appeared as a frequent guest expert on TV and radio, including the Oprah Show, Donahue, CNN, Fox, CBS and NPR. She has also contributed work to Reader’s Digest, Redbook, U.S. News and World Report and the Washington Post.
In 2022, Kristin earned her MFA from the University of Southern Maine, Stonecoast. Her creative writing has appeared in literary journals, blogs and anthologies and is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, the Maine Sunday Telegram, and Ran Off with the Star Bassoon. She received a 2024 fellowship from the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities.