BRIDGETT DAVIS
Filmmaker + Journalist + Novelist
Bridgett M. Davis is the author of the memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life In The Detroit Numbers, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a 2020 Michigan Notable Book, named a Best Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed, NBC News and Parade Magazine. The upcoming film adaptation will be produced by Plan B Entertainment and released by Searchlight Pictures. Davis is currently writing a new memoir, Love, Rita, to be published by Harper Books in 2025. She is also the author of the novels Into the Go-Slow and Shifting Through Neutral.
Also known for her filmmaking, Davis is the writer and director of the 1998 award-winning feature film Naked Acts, newly restored by Milestone Films and Kino Lorber, and slated for select theaters in June 2024. Davis is the Professor Emerita in the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she has taught creative, narrative and film writing.
Her essays have appeared most recently in The New York Times, The Millions, Real Simple, the LA Times and O, the Oprah Magazine. A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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