Bridgett M. Davis
Bridgett M. Davis is an author, filmmaker, curator and teacher.
Davis' memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life In The Detroit Numbers is a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a 2020 Michigan Notable Book, and named a Best Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed, NBC News and Parade Magazine.
Davis is the author of two novels, Into the Go-Slow and Shifting Through Neutral, shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Award.
As a professor at CUNY’s Baruch College, she teaches creative, film and narrative writing.
Davis is co-founder and curator for Words@Weeksville, a monthly reading series held at Weeksville Heritage Center in Central Brooklyn.
She is also writer/director of the critically acclaimed, award-winning feature film Naked Acts. The film and its elements are now housed in the permanent collection of Indiana University’s distinguished Black Film Center/Archive.
A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Davis’ essays have recently appeared in The New York Times, The Millions, Real Simple, O, The Oprah Magazine, Women’s Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, and LitHub.
