About Jennifer

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Jennifer S. Davis was born and raised in Alabama, where she grew up exploring the banks of Lake Martin and the Tallapoosa River. She has lived and worked in Montana, Denver, Miami, Rio de Janeiro, Washington state and New Orleans. In 2001, she received her MFA from the University of Alabama. She has taught at the University of Alabama, the University of Miami, New College of Florida, and in the MFA program at Eastern Washington University. Currently, she teaches at the University of Colorado at Denver, where she serves as a faculty editor of Copper Nickel.  Davis' stories have been published or are forthcoming in such journals as Grand Street, Paris Review, Epoch, Georgia Review, One Story, Oxford American, Fiction, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among others. Her first collection of short stories, Our Former Lives in Art, was the winner of the Iowa Award for Short Fiction. Her new collection, Our Former Lives in Art, will be published by Random House in July of 2007. She is at work on a novel that takes place during Reconstruction.