Robin Davidson

ROBIN DAVIDSON is the author of two poem chapbooks, Kneeling in the Dojo and City that Ripens on the Tree of the World, and the collection Luminous Other, awarded the Ashland Poetry Press’s 2012 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize. She holds MA and PhD degrees from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Recipient of a Fulbright professorship at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland and an NEA translation fellowship, she is co-translator with Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska of Ewa Lipska’s poems from the Polish—The New Century (Northwestern UP, 2009). Davidson served as 2015-2017 Houston Poet Laureate under the leadership of Mayors Annise Parker and Sylvester Turner, and edited the citywide 2018 anthology, Houston’s Favorite Poems, modeled on Robert Pinsky’s national Favorite Poem Project. She has twice been a finalist for Texas State Poet Laureate, and was inducted into the Texas Instiute of Letters last spring. She teaches literature and creative writing as professor emeritus of English for the University of Houston-Downtown.