CAROL ANN DAVIS is a poet, essayist, and author of the poetry collections Psalm (2007) and Atlas Hour (2011), and a collection of essays, The Nail in the Tree (2020). A former longtime editor of the literary journal Crazyhorse, she is Professor of English at Fairfield University, where she is Director of the Low-Residence MFA and founding director of Poetry in Communities, an initiative that provides poetry curricula to communities hit by sudden or systemic violence.  An NEA Fellow in Poetry, Carol Ann has read her work at the Library of Congress, Poets House, on the website of the PBS NewsHour, and at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival. Her work regularly appears in literary magazines and periodicals, including The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, The Georgia Review, Image, The Gettysburg Review, The American Poetry Review, and Agni.