John Davis Jr.'s prose has appeared in the Medical Literary Messenger, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Flash Fiction magazine, and other venues. Primarily a poet, he is the author of Hard Inheritance (Five Oaks Press, 2016), Middle Class American Proverb (Negative Capability Press, 2014), and two other collections of poetry. His poems have appeared in publications including Nashville Review, Tampa Review, Fantastic Floridas, and The American Journal of Poetry, among many others. He holds an MFA and teaches college classes in the Tampa Bay area.