Jon Davis(XII)
- Writer
Jon Davis is the author of six collections of poetry, including
Preliminary Report (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), and Scrimmage of
Appetite (University of Akron Press, 1995), for which he was honored
with a Lannan Literary Award in Poetry. He has also received two
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Lannan Residency, a Cill
Rialaig residency, and a fellowship to The Fine Arts Work Center in
Provincetown. He has scripted short films that have screened at the
National Geographic All Roads Film Festival, National Museum of the
American Indian Film & Video Festival, The American Indian Film
Festival, ImagineNative, and on Movieola: The Short Film Channel in
Canada. For four years, he taught screen writing for the Institute of
American Indian Arts' ABC/Disney Summer Film & Television Workshops. He
has taught at College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe University of Art & Design,
and Salisbury University (Maryland). He is Chair of the Creative
Writing Department at the Institute of American Indian Arts, where he
has taught since 1990.