[1] He also serves on the poetry faculty at the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.

As an English major at Oregon State, he took creative writing courses from the poets Joseph Millar and David Biespiel and from the fiction writer Marjorie Sandor.

As a graduate student, Davis was enrolled in the MA/PhD track, which focused on studying and writing critically about literature.

[3] Revising the Storm won the 2013 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, selected by Dorianne Laux,[4] and was named a finalist for the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.

His second book of poetry, Night Angler (BOA Editions, 2019) won the 2018 James Laughlin Award, a second-book prize from the Academy of American Poets.