Bridgett M. Davis

Bridgett M. Davis is the author of the memoirs Love, Rita (published by Harper Books in Spring 2025) and The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers (a New York Times Editors’ Choice, named a Best Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews, and featured as a clue on Jeopardy!). She is also the author of two novels, Into the Go-Slow, and Shifting Through Neutral. Davis is the writer/director of the 1996 award-winning film Naked Acts, newly restored and released to critical acclaim, and now available on select streaming services, DVD and Blu-Ray. Davis is Professor Emerita at Baruch College (CUNY) and the Graduate Center, where she taught creative, narrative and film writing. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, the LA Times and The Washington Post, among other publications. A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia Journalism School, she lives in Brooklyn with her family.