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Bridgett M. Davis

Bridgett M. Davis is a novelist, essayist, teacher, filmmaker, memoirist, and curator.

She is the author of the memoir The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers, and the novels Into The Go-Slow and Shifting Through Neutral.

She is also the writer/director of the critically acclaimed, award-winning 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.