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James Davis is the author of Club Q (Waywiser, 2020), which Edward Hirsch selected for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Davis's work has been featured on NBC News and CBC Radio and anthologized in two installments of Best New Poets (2011, selected by D. A. Powell; and 2019, selected by Cate Marvin), as well as numerous magazines and journals, including The Sewanee Review, Five Points, Copper Nickel, The Gay & Lesbian Review, 32 Poems, Pleiades, and The Gettysburg Review. He holds a Bachelor's in French from the University of Houston, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Florida, and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of North Texas. His writing has received support from the Sewanee Writers Conference, Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Hudson Valley Writers Center, The Mastheads, the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and other literary arts organizations. He reads submissions for Narrative as a Senior Poetry Editor and served as Editor in Chief of American Literary Review from 2023 to 2024. He lives in Denton, Texas, where he teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at UNT.