Cortney Davis is the author of four previous full-length poetry collections, three poetry chapbooks, and three memoirs. She is co-editor of three anthologies of creative writing by nurses. Honors include an NEA Poetry Grant, three Connecticut Commission on the Arts Poetry Grants, two Connecticut Center for the Book Awards, the Prairie Schooner Book Award, an Independent Publisher's Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal in Non-Fiction, and six Books of the Year first place awards in the category of creative works from the American Journal of Nursing.

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About Daughter:

"In this searingly beautiful collection of poems, Cortney Davis asks a question: Where are the other mothers who have lost their daughters, who might be my guides and mentors? Then, Davis' guide begins to appear. In the arduous, anguishing labor of intimate remembering, the poet-healer summons forth herself as mentoring guide."
—Kathleen Noone Deignan

"These poems are the work of a master, with Davis contrasting the fate of millions of people with COVID-19 with the specifics of her daughter's unfolding illness, 'the tragedy within the tragedy.' The poet's gaze is direct, attuned to the details of suffering, and at the same time, generous, vulnerable, beautiful, and compassionate...In this stunning collection of poems, Cortney Davis becomes our guide, our mentor, holding the reader in her arms the way she held her daughter on both her first and final journeys, 'all the way home.'"
—Richard M. Berlin

"With a slamming storm of personal grief, Cortney Davis allows her holy and stunningly accurate attention, her great capacity to touch human beings and their bodies, to deeply consider those struck by a roiling and raging Coronavirus. In these poems, a beloved child comes first, and yet our world, which can feel so lost, so terminal, Cortney gathers close-in too."
—John Fox