Marissa Davis is a writer, translator, and editor from Paducah, Kentucky. Following years in Nashville, Tennessee and Brooklyn, New York, she now resides in Paris, France, where she is a candidate for a master’s degree in translation at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. She received her MFA in poetry from New York University, where she was a Rona Jaffe fellow.

Marissa is the author of My Name & Other Languages I Am Learning How to Speak (Jai-Alai Books, 2020), which received Cave Canem’s 2019 Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize, chosen by poet Danez Smith. Her full-length debut, End of Empire, is forthcoming from Penguin Books in 2025.