Carol Ann Davis is a poet, essayist, and author of the poetry collections THE NAIL IN THE TREES: ESSAYS ON ART, VIOLENCE, AND CHILDOOD (Tupelo Press, 2020), PSALM (Tupello Press, 2007), and Atlas Hour (2011). The daughter of one of the NASA engineers who returned the Apollo 13 crew from the moon, she grew up on the east coast of Florida the youngest of seven children, then studied poetry at Vassar College and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A former longtime editor of the literary journal Crazyhorse, she is Professor of English at Fairfield University, where she is founding director of Poetry in Communities, an initiative that brings writing workshops to communities hit by sudden or systemic violence. She lives in Newtown, CT, with her husband and two sons.