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Coffy Davis is an author, poet and playwright. Coffy Davis was born and raised in Oakland, California, Coffy Davis resides in Little Rock, Arkansas. She has an English Degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In 2004 she became a trailblazer and created The Underground Railroad Neighborhood project (TURN Project) an initiative that bridged art and literacy with at-risk communities. She is a spoken word artist that competed and won in various local and national slams as a solo artist as well as a founding member of the local troupe, Foreign Tongues. She was the Assistant Editor for the Localist magazine which fused Hip Hop and Punk Rock music and was subsequently sought after to instruct a Hip Hop after school program that used the genre as a vessel to teach life skills-- a program that was featured on CNN's Black in America. She hosted The Urban Hang Suite KABF radio and sat as the Vice president for the Arkansas Community Arts co-op for three years. She has won the Senator Pryor Award for Community Service (2009), the Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship Award (2017) and the Nan Snow Emerging Artist Award (2018.) As an author her published written works include Freedom in 2008, MEdusa Reflections of an Angry Black Woman, Ghetto Politics and MEdusa Reflections in Poetry all of which were published in 2019.