Carol V. Davis is the author of Because I Cannot Leave This Body (Truman State Univ. Press, 2017) and Between Storms (TSUP, 2012). She won the 2007 T.S. Eliot Prize for Into the Arms of Pushkin: Poems of St. Petersburg. Her first book, It's Time to Talk About..., was published in a bilingual English/Russian edition, (Symposium, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1997). Her poetry has been read on National Public Radio, the US Library of Congress and Radio Russia. Formerly Poetry Editor of the Los Angeles newspaper, the Jewish Journal, in 2018 she guest edited a double issue of Shirim on the theme of Contemporary Jewish American Poets. She was the 2008 Sandburg-Auden-Stein Poet-in-Residence at Olivet College, MI and teaches at Santa Monica College, California and Antioch University, Los Angeles. Twice a Fulbright scholar in Russia, she taught in Siberia, most recently in winter 2018.She was awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant for Siberia in 2020, postponed due to Covid, and then cancelled in 2022 due to the war. Her work has been translated into German and recent work is being translated into Russian in Russia and in Israel.