Ed Davis has immersed himself in writing and contemplative practices since retiring from college teaching. Time of the Light, a poetry collection, was released by Main Street Rag Press in 2013. His Latest novel, The Psalms of Israel Jones (West Virginia University Press 2014), won the Hackney Awards for an unpublished novel in 2010. Many of his stories, essays, and poems have appeared in anthologies and journals such as Leaping Clear, Wordrunner, Hawaii Pacific Review, and Bacopa Literary Review. He lives with his wife in the bucolic village of Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he bikes, hikes, meditates and reads religiously.