An Ear to the Ground: Presenting Writers from 2 Coasts

by Scott C. Davis (Editor)

Features essays on the theme 'local truth'. This work includes proses from 75 writers of the East and West Coasts.

497 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1997

About the author

Scott C. Davis was born in 1948 in Seattle, graduated from Stanford in 1970, and now lives with his wife, Mary, in Seattle. He serves as the US correspondent for Damascus-based Ad - Domari magazine - the first independent publication in Syria since 1963. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Exquisite Corpse, and other publications. Davis's first book, The World of Patience Gromes: Making and Unmaking a Black Community, won the Washington State Book Award. His second book, Lost Arrow and Other True Stories, won the KCAC Literary Award. Davis has edited and produced a distinctive collection of essays by 75 new writers. An Ear to the Ground: Presenting Writers from 2 Coasts was endorsed by Horton. He recently received a King County Arts Commission grant for his work-in progress: A cycle of carpentry tales. In 2003 Davis published The Road from Damascus: A Journey Through Syria. This is the first travelogue on Syria by an American in over a century and is based on Davis's travels in Syria since 1987.