Karin Cecile Davidson

Fiction Writer

Columbus, OH
Ohio US
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Author's Bio

Karin Cecile Davidson is the author of the story collection The Geography of First Kisses (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2023), winner of the Acacia Fiction Prize, and the novel Sybelia Drive (Braddock Avenue Books, 2020). Her stories have appeared in Five PointsStory MagazineThe Massachusetts Review, Colorado Review, The Los Angeles ReviewPost RoadPassages North, and elsewhere. Her awards include an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Waasmode Prize, the Orlando Prize, a Peter Taylor Fellowship, and residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and The Studios of Key West. Her fiction has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net, as well as shortlisted for the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers, the Nelligan Prize, the Red Hen Press Women's Prose Prize, and the Faulkner-Wisdom Writing Competition, among others. She has an MFA from Lesley University and worked as an editor at Narrative Magazine (2010-2014) and as the Interviews Editor for Newfound Journal (2014 to 2021). Originally from New Orleans, she now lives in Columbus, Ohio. Her writing can be found at karinceciledavidson.com.

Writers Retreats: 
Literary agent: 
Valerie Borchardt of Georges Borchardt Literary Agency

Publications & Prizes

Journals:
Animal: Beast of a Literary Magazine
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Gris-Gris
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Iron Horse Literary Review
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Newfound Journal
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Story Magazine
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This Land
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Prizes won: 

Acacia Fiction Prize, Ohio Arts Council Artist Residency at Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency, The Studios of Key West Artist Residency, Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, AROHO's Orlando Prize for Short Fiction, Waasmode Short Fiction Prize, Peter Taylor Fellowship

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Norwegian American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Winter Park, FL
Florida
Raised in: 
New Orleans, LA
Louisiana
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Last update: Oct 04, 2023