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Stella Davis was born and brought up in southern England, and educated at Christ’s Hospital and Southampton University. She has been writing poetry since the 1980s, and her work appears regularly in magazines including Acumen, Equinox, The Interpreter’s House, iota, The London Magazine, Poetry Review, The Rialto, Staple, and South Poetry Magazine, at whose six-monthly readings she is a frequent contributor. Her poems have also been heard on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Solent. Her first collection with Peterloo Poets, Last Boat to Avalon, is due in September 2008. Stella conducts book groups, poetry workshops, and writing groups for adults and children. She writes poems on commission, tackling everything from private birthday and Valentine greetings to a commemoration of Beaulieu Abbey’s 800th anniversary in 2004. Winner of the Open University Open Poetry Competition 2001, she spent the Year of the Artist (2000-2001) as Poet in Residence at the Port of Southampton. Her book of poems arising from the residency, Watershot (Wanda Publications 2001), found both local popularity and wider critical acclaim. In 2003 she was funded by the Arts Council as Poet in Residence at Winchester Cathedral. Her book of residency poems St Swithun’s Day was published by the Friends of Winchester Cathedral in July 2004. In 2003 she won the Spire Trust Poetry Competition, and in 2005 the Torbay Poetry Festival Open Poetry Competition. Stella Davis lives in West Coker, Somerset. She is married to an academic lawyer and has a daughter and a son. She works as a free-lance editor, writer, and jobbing poet.
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