Todd F. Davis (born 1965) is a prize-winning American poet and critic.
Todd F. Davis (born March 29, 1965, in Elkhart, Indiana) is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Penn State University’s Altoona College.
Davis is the author of eight books of poetry—Ripe (2002), Some Heaven (2007), The Least of These (2010), Household of Water, Moon, and Snow: The Thoreau Poems (2010), and In the Kingdom of the Ditch (2013), "Winterkill" (2016), "Native Species" (2019), "Coffin Honey" (2022), and "Ditch Memory: New & Selected Poems (2024)—as well as co-editor, with Erin Murphy, of the anthology, Making Poems (2010), co-editor with Noah Davis and Carolyn Mahan of the anthology, "A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia" (2024), and editor of "Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball" (2012).
As literary critic, Davis is the author of several books related to ethical criticism and postmodern humanism, including Kurt Vonnegut’s Crusade, or How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism (2006) and, with Kenneth Womack, Postmodern Humanism in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Reconciling the Void (2006).
Davis lives near the village of Tipton, Pennsylvania, with his wife Shelly and their sons.