Kathryn Davis

writer

Previously an English professor at Skidmore College, Kathryn Davis is now senior fiction writer-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the recipient of the Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship. Upon conferring the 2006 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, the selection committee noted that Davis is “an unconventional, challenging, and daring writer.” She is the author of *Labrador*, *The Girl Who Trod on a Load*, *Hell*, *The Walking Tour*, *Versailles*, and most recently *The Thin Place*. She is a contributor to the new modern fairy tale collection, *My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me*. *The Christian Science Monitor* said of Davis, “Plot synopses don’t do her justice, and adjectives don’t really help much, either.” She lives in Montpelier, Vermont, with her husband, the novelist and essayist Eric Zencey.