Starr Davis

Starr Davis is the author of Affidavit from Hanging Loose Press, which is the winner of the Founder's Prize. She is also the author of the memoir I Am Mostly Bad Blood, which was the winner of the 2024 Autumn House nonfiction prize ad will be published this fall. Her writing has appeared in the Kenyon Review, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, and Palette Poetry, where she won third place in the 2023 Sappho Prize for Women Poets. She serves as creative nonfiction editor at TriQuarterly, is a fellow with both the Center for Art & Advocacy, and the Texas After Violence Project, and and was a poetry instructor with Brooklyn Poets. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from City College of New York and a BA in Journalism and Creative Writing from the University of Akron. Her work explores motherhood, justice, and survival.