About

Kristin W. Davis is a poet, essayist, and journalist. Her recent work includes a collection of documentary poems and essays that centers on Willowbrook State School, at one time the largest institution in the world for people with intellectual and other disabilities.

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 Epiphany, Lily Poetry Review, and I Witness: An Anthology of Documentary Poems (Wesleyan Press). She received 2024 and 2025 fellowships from the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities.