Bio

Frederica Morgan Davis is a writer and editor, guided by a mission to encourage creativity, amplify the voices of girls, women, and underrepresented communities, and connect artists and audiences. She serves as the Fiction Editor for Shenandoah. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and studied psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. At UNCW, she was a designer for the award-winning journal Ecotone, worked for Lookout Books, co-hosted the MFA Reading Series, and co-directed the Young Writers’ Workshop. Her writing appears in storySouth, the Barely South Review, Press Pause Press, The Normal School, and elsewhere. She was a Bread Loaf Environmental Writers work scholar for three summers, was a member of the inaugural 2020 One Story Writing Circle, and has studied at the Tin House Summer Workshop, Writing x Writers, LitCamp, One Story Summer Conference, and Summer Literary Seminars. Previously she ran music promotions for KALW Public Media, managed Events & Communications at the Conservatory of Flowers, and worked in publicity and marketing for various festivals and art organizations, including SFFILM, SF Sketchfest, and BroadwaySF. She has also received her 250 hours of yoga teacher training at Body & Soul Yoga Collective (formerly Laughing Lotus) and studied songwriting at Esalen.