Laura Joyce Davis was awarded a 2010-2011 creative writing Fulbright fellowship in the Philippines to complete research for her novel about sex trafficking, The Low-Flying Dove. She was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize, and has been published in Lakehōm Magazine, A Cappella Zoo, the Cricket Online Review, The Mills Quarterly, The Campanil, and Building Bridges: The 2009 San Francisco Writers Conference Anthology. She studied under Yiyun Li, Anthony Doerr, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Victor LaValle, and Cornelia Nixon, who nominated her for the 2006 Best New American Voices during her time as an MFA student at Mills College, where she won the Ardella Mills prize for graduate fiction in 2005 and 2006. She lives in Oakland with her husband, who is also a writer.