Cortney Davis

Cortney Davis is a nurse practitioner by day and a belly dancer and poet by night. She is the author of the poetry collection Details of Flesh (Calyx Books) and the memoir, I Knew a Woman: Four Women Patients and Their Female Caregiver (Ballantine Books). She’s also co-editor of two anthologies of nurses’ writing, Between the Heartbeats and Intensive Care (both University of Iowa Press). She lives in Redding, Connecticut.