Alan Davis

Alan Davis's new dystopian novel Clouds Are the Mountains of the World is "a compelling vision rendered in language, both surreal and chillingly familiar, that summons the apocalyptic dreams of Bruegel and Bosch."

James Edmunds, the filmmaker and photographer, wrote the day after the 2024 election that "This novel becomes less fictional with every passing minute."

Davis's prize-winning collections of fiction include Rumors From the Lost World and Alone With the Owl, MVP award winners, and So Bravely Vegetative, Prize Americana winner; he co-edited Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan and 10 editions of American Fiction. He taught at Minnesota State, Fairfield University's MFA Program, and the Stonecoast MFA Program, and served as Editor of a national literary press for 15+ years.

Reviews:

"I kept thinking that I wouldn't mind ending up as a character in one of his stories. Odds are, he'd do me justice." Dorothy Allison, The New York Times Book Review.

"Moving easily between blue-collar types and Social Register summer people, New Age dancers and Old World immigrants, underground poets and Elvis freaks, Davis demonstrates an impressive range in this collection." Kirkus Reviews

"A magical collection of stories, one of the best I've encountered in years." Tim O'Brien