Visiting Writer Matthew Davis

Thursday, March 26, 2026 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Fenwick Library, Room 2001

Matthew Davis is the author of Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore. His previous books are When Things Get Dark: A Mongolian Winter’s Tale, and the children’s book The Magic Horse Fiddle. His essays and journalism have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Slate, the Los Angeles Review of Books and Guernica, among other places. He’s been an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at New America, a Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV, and a Fulbright Fellow to Syria and Jordan. He holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa and an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He founded the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center at George Mason University in 2016 and was its founding director from 2016-2023. You can find him at his website: matthewdaviswriter.com