Nancy
Victoria Davis
is a painter, illustrator,
book designer, installation artist and co-founder of Big Bridge Press.
Born in New York and raised in Ada, Alabama, she took the big bridge to
California in 1975, and since then has surrounded herself with art and
nature. In addition to operating a tropical plant nursery, she has been
inspired by poetry and illustrated the works of Jim Harrison, Allen Ginsberg,
Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, Andrei Codrescu, and Joanne Kyger. She
has been awarded The Rounce and Coffin Award for her design and illustration
of "What The Fish Saw," and her broadside "Elegy For The Dusky
Seaside Sparrow" was chosen as Best Broadside of The Year by Fine Print
Magazine. Her work has been exhibited at the New York Public Library,
the San Francisco Public Library, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art Rental Gallery. Her illustrations have appeared in Exquisite Corpse,
Nerve Bundle Review, Mike & Dale's Younger Poets and Cafe
Review (www.mainelink.net).
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