Starr Davis is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and The Rumpus. She was the 2024 Writing Freedom Fellow with Haymarket Books and the Mellon Foundation. Affidavit is the most recent winner of Hanging Loose Press’s annual Founders Award for a first book of poetry.



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