Magical, mystical, lyrical—Ed Davis’s linked story collection, Here, Where We Stand (Main Street Rag 2026) is all this and more. His poetic descriptions of the village of Shawnee Springs and the Glenora Wood nature preserve may send readers searching for them online, perhaps hoping to visit. Though fictional, they are clearly inspired by Yellow Springs, […]
Ed Davis
Ed Davis has immersed himself in writing and contemplative practices since retiring from college teaching. Time of the Light, a poetry collection, was released by Main Street Rag Press in 2013. His novel The Psalms of Israel Jones (West Virginia University Press 2014) won the Hackney Award for an unpublished novel in 2010. Many of his stories, essays and poems […]
Read of the Month: “Upon the Corner of the Moon” by Valerie Nieman
Pagan rituals, visions and prophecies; commingling of myth, religion and history; poets, princes and perpetually plotting monarchs; sibling rivalry; siege and conquest. In her new novel Upon the Corner of the Moon (Regal House 2025), veteran North Carolina writer Valerie Nieman uses all this rich material—and more—to dramatize the backstory of two of Shakespeare’s most […]


