Indiana University’s Black Film Center/Archive honored Davis on the 20th anniversary of the film’s production. She is also writer/director of the critically acclaimed, award-winning film Naked Acts, which screened at a host of festivals in the US, Europe, and Africa before having its theatrical and DVD release. Davis was selected as 2005 New Author of the Year by Go on Girl! Book Club - the largest national reading group for African-American women. Into The Go-Slow was praised by Nigerian writer Chris Abani as, “a beautiful allegory of love, family, expansion, hope and transformation”.ĭavis’ debut novel Shifting Through Neutral, published by Amistad/Harper Collins in 2004, was a finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award A Quarterly Black Review bestseller and an “Original Voices” selection by Border’s Books. Time Out New York named Davis one of “10 New York Authors to Read Right Now”. She is author of the memoir The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and named a Best Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and Real Simple magazine.ĭavis’ second novel, Into The Go-Slow, was selected as a best book of 2014 by Salon, The San Francisco Chronicle, BookRiot, Bustle and The Root, among others. Davis is a novelist, essayist, teacher, filmmaker, memoirist and curator.
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