2010 Presenters
Kathryn Davis
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.
LINKS:
The Lannan Foundation biography of Davis
