Davis, Yuki is a Japanese American writer and former theatrical lighting technician based in Los Angeles. Born in 1987 in Monterey, California, Davis studied lighting design at California Institute of the Arts and spent a decade working backstage in black box theaters, concert halls, and small museums from Long Beach to Silver Lake. Their essays and short fiction have appeared in The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Boulevard, and Joyland, and a chapbook, Lightfall, won the Wabash Prize for creative nonfiction in 2022. A MacDowell and Ucross resident, Davis has taught community writing workshops through 826LA and the Echo Park Film Center. They live in a rent-controlled studio with too many extension cords and a one-eyed cat named Photon.
