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). |