Winner of the PEN Center Literary Award for Research Nonfiction, Steve Davis is the author and editor of eight books. He’s made “Best of” lists at National Public Radio, Amazon, Kirkus, The New Republic, The Daily Beast, and more. He’s won the Writers League of Texas Award for Best Nonfiction and he’s been a finalist for top nonfiction prizes from the Texas Institute of Letters and the Philosophical Society of Texas.

Davis is the longtime literary curator at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. He is a Past President of the Texas Institute of Letters, a literary honor society founded in 1936 with an elected membership consisting of the state’s most respected writers.