BRIDGETT DAVIS

Filmmaker + Journalist + Author + curator + mentor

located Near: Brooklyn, NY

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Bridgett Davis’s bio

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, which screened at a host of festivals in the US, Europe, and Africa before having its theatrical and DVD release. Indiana University’s Black Film Center/Archive honored Davis on the 20th anniversary of the film’s production. The film is now part of the Black Film Archive’s permanent collection.

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.