Bridgett M. Davis is a native of Detroit, Michigan. She is the author of the debut novel Shifting through Neutral (Amistad), which was a finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award. Her feature film, Naked Acts, received the Audience Award for the 2009 African Diaspora Film Festival. A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University, Davis is a professor of creative writing and journalism at Baruch College in New York City. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.