Davis is the author of "Because I Cannot Leave This Body" (Truman State Univ. Press, 2017), "Between Storms" (TSUP, 2012) and won the 2007 T.S. Eliot Prize for "Into the Arms of Pushkin: Poems of St. Petersburg.” Twice a Fulbright scholar in Russia, she teaches at Santa Monica College, Antioch University, Los Angeles. She is poetry editor of the Los Angeles newspaper the Jewish Journal.