Cortney Davis

Cortney Davis is the author of The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing (The Kent State University Press, 2009) and of five poetry collections, including Leopold's Maneuvers, and is the winner of an American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award and the Prairie Schooner Poetry Book Prize. Coeditor of two anthologies of poetry and prose by nurses, Between the Heartbeats and Intensive Care, Davis's writing explores the transcendent and often mysterious bond between patients and their...See more

Cortney Davis is the author of The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing (The Kent State University Press, 2009) and of five poetry collections, including Leopold's Maneuvers, and is the winner of an American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award and the Prairie Schooner Poetry Book Prize. Coeditor of two anthologies of poetry and prose by nurses, Between the Heartbeats and Intensive Care, Davis's writing explores the transcendent and often mysterious bond between patients and their caregivers. See less