Kori Davis

Assistant, Membership and National Engagement

Kori Davis is an assistant for the Membership and National Engagement team. His role is to provide support to current members, perform outreach to attract new members to PEN America and a wide variety of additional projects.

He has previously worked as a professor at the City College of New York, working primarily with first-year students to improve their composition skills. As a writing tutor, he developed pedagogical techniques for tutoring students with different learning styles.

He is a graduate of the MFA creative writing program at the City College of New York. His writings have been published in Slice Magazine, Resource, and The Promethean.

Articles by Kori Davis

Writing as Craft

Thursday August 15

Yahia Lababidi | The PEN Ten Interview

When we refuse to acknowledge the suffering of others, and the role we play in it, we contribute to our own suffering, since we are One. The violence we commit throughout the world or allow to take place in our name is like a karmic serpent that will find its way home, to our doorstop.

Writing as Craft

Thursday February 8

Kacen Callender | The PEN Ten Interview

I wanted to offer the idea that power is naturally inside of all of us, and that we can feel empowered and worthy and loved even when rejected by others for not meeting their criteria of worth.

Writing as Craft

Thursday November 10

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Cynthia Dewi Oka

To question something is to refuse its inevitability; to me that is one way we exercise our humanity in the face of inhumane conditions.