Lori Davis is an English/creative writing teacher with over 20 years of experience in Los Angeles and the Coachella Valley. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Radio/TV/Film from California State University Long Beach and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Poetry from the University of California, Riverside – Palm Desert Graduate Center. She has published poems in national literary journals, including Salt Hill, Hayden's Ferry Review, Cimarron Review, and Atlanta Review, and was the poetry editor for The Coachella Review. In addition to teaching, she was involved in training and curriculum development for Poetry Out Loud, Tools for Tomorrow and Writers in the Schools (W.I.T.S.) She has lived in Palm Desert for 18 years with her husband and two children (both proud graduates of Xavier).