K.P. Davis Biography

Kimberly (K.P.) Davis is the director and founder of Madville Publishing. She sometimes teaches English Composition, Creative Writing, and Technical Writing, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, and a BA from Columbia College-Chicago in Arts and Entertainment Media Management. She spent five years on the editorial staff of Texas Review Press.

Kim has been engaged in freelance web design for so long now that she’s embarrassed to say! See her design portfolio at Sublime Design Studio.

Kim’s selected writing credits

Nonfiction:

• “The Importance of Integrity” Story Circle Network Journal, Vol. 29 No. 4, Dec 2025.
• “Memories in the Packing Materials” Story Circle Network Journal, Vol. 29 No. 3, Sept 2025.
• “Sleeping Sickness” Well Read Magazine (December 2024).
• “Willie.” Wild Wind: Poems and Stories Inspired by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen (Madville 2024).
• “Cheating Songs.” Vox Populi (June 26, 2021)
• “The Contract Fulfilled.” 50-Word Stories. (March 19, 2020.)
• “Bracketville, Texas, 1964.” Flare: The Flagler Review. (2020).
• “Garden Variety, by John Hoenig.” Review by Kimberly Davis. JASAT, 2018.
• “Hitchcock’s Objects as Subjects: The Significance of Things on Screen, by Marc Raymond Strauss.” Review by Kimberly Davis. JASAT, 2016.
• “Facing the Challenges Inherent in Teaching Online: A Case Study.” Plaza: Dialogues in Language and Literature [Online], 3.2 (2013): 45-61. 
• Crewing Aboard a Superyacht – A Guide to Working Afloat. London: Adlard Coles Nautical. 2004.
• “What Makes a ‘Weather Guy’? An Interview” Employment Times. Vol. 5, Issue 20. 19 May 2003.
• The Yachtie Bible. Booklocker. 2002.

Poetry:

• “Sundays,” Writing Texas, edited by Laurence Musgrove, Vol.8, 2021-2022.
• “The Archaeologist Dreams of Sleep,” The Sam Houston State Review  (2014), and By the Light of a Neon Moon (Madville 2019).
• “Like People in Love,” By the Light of a Neon Moon (Madville 2019).

Fiction:

• “Nell–On Being Prepared,” Vox Populi, February 21, 2026.
• “The Art of the Bargain,” 27 Stories: An LA Wildfire Anthology, Running Wild Press, 2026.
• Trust Issues, a short story collection (Cornerstone Press 2025).
• “Engineering the Apocalypse,” Well Read Magazine, Issue 18, January, 2024.
• “Nebula and the Wolf,” Writing Texas, edited by Laurence Musgrove, Vol.8, 2021-2022.
• “Forever and Ever,” Vox Populi, August 19, 2022.
• “The Messenger,” Vox Populi, February 27, 2022.
• “Trust Issues,” quarter finalist, 2021 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition Quarterfinalists, January 6, 2021.
• “The Magic Airplane,” Sad Girls Club Literary Blog, January 26, 2021.
• “A Simple Twist of Fate,” Kestrel, Issue 43, Summer 2020.
• “Do You Know the Bunny Hop?” époque press, “Illumination” issue. (2019).
• “Strings of Solace,” JerryJazzMusician.com (2019).
• “The Meek Inherit,” FLAR (2018).
• “Chumming for Sharks,” The Helix Magazine (2017).
• “Sea Legs,” The Sam Houston State Review (2014) and The Helix Magazine (2017).
• “The Messenger,” The Sam Houston State Review  (2014) and The Helix Magazine (2017).

Conferences & Presentations:

“Words for Wellness,” hosted by Goutham Rao at Case Western. Online presentation for doctors who write. November 2025.

“Working with Small Presses,” “The Art of the Query,” and “Brandbuilding for Authors.” Las Vegas Writers Conference, April 11-13, 2024. Presenter and Keynote speaker.

“Working with Small Presses” Greater Denton Arts Coucil, 400 East Hickory, Patterson Appleton Arts Center, Denton, Texas November 4, 2023. Presenter.

Panel Discussion, Manuscript evaluation, Atlanta Writers Conference, May 2023.

“Submitting to and Working with a Small Press,” Sandhill Writers Retreat, SWR Readers Series, San Leo University, Tampa, Florida. May 11, 2022.

“Publishing Options for New Authors—2018.” 2018 Other Words Literary Conference. Florida Literary Arts Council, Tampa, Florida, October 11-13, 2018. Presenter.

“The Process of Publishing. You’ve signed a contract. What happens next?” Cuenca International Writers Conference 2018. Fundación Literatura De Las Américas, Cuenca, Ecuador, May 28-June 1, 2018. Presenter.

“The Places America Forgot: A Reading of Rural Fiction,” AWP 2018. Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Tampa, FL, March 8-10, 2018. Moderator.

“The Role of the University Press in Contemporary Publishing,” Reading and Writing About War, Words & Music 2017. Faulkner Society, New Orleans, LA, December 6-10, 2017. Moderator and Presenter.

“How to Get an Agent, the Right Agent, and Working with an Editor,” Reading and Writing About War, Words & Music 2017. Faulkner Society, New Orleans, LA, December 6-10, 2017. Master Class: 2017 Agents & Editors Meeting.

“Ron Kenney: How an English Jockey Came to Texas.” Where have you come from? Where are you Going? American Studies Association of Texas Conference 2017. Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, November 9-11, 2017. Presenter.

“Harry Potter: Judging the Books by Their Many Covers.” Honors Seminar 3331.02, Culture and Society: Harry Potter. Sam Houston State University, September 27, 2017. Presenter.

Poetry reading in honor of Paul Ruffin. Kindred Spirits – A WAMA Celebration of the Fine Arts. Walter Anderson Museum in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, August 12, 2017.

Fiction Reading in honor of Dr. Paul Ruffin. Contextualizing Conflict, Culture, and Community. American Studies Association of Texas Conference 2016. Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, November 12-14, 2016. Presenter.

“American Perspectives; Original Poetry and Fiction by SHSU Master of Fine Arts Candidates” Rethinking, Reimagining, and Reflecting American Studies in the 21^st Century. American Studies Association of Texas Conference 2014. Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, November 13-15, 2014. Panel Organizer and Presenter.

“Ren’Py in the Classroom: Multimodal Learning via Open-Source Software.” E-Re-Con-volutions. Computers & Writing 2014. Washington State University. Pullman, Washington, June 5-June 8, 2014. Presenter.

“The Transculturation of Voudou in Mumbo Jumbo.” Sigma Tau Delta, 2014 International Convention. Savannah, Georgia, February 26-March 1, 2014. Paper Presenter.

“Original Poetry: Riding the Currents of Loss.” Sigma Tau Delta, 2014 International Convention. Savannah, Georgia, February 26-March 1, 2014. Session Chair.

“Lunatics or Luminaries: The French Revolution through the Eyes of William Blake and Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin.” Energy. The 39^th Annual Convention of the South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Galveston Island, Texas, February 12-16, 2014. Paper Presentation.

“Digital Revolutions: Retention in the Online Classroom and Training the Teachers” Revolution. Coastal Plains Graduate Conference of Language and Literature Conference 2013. University of Houston Graduate English Society. April 6, 2013. Panel Discussion.

“There’s an App for That! Reaching out to Students Using Technology” Building Bridges: Writing Centers as Bridges Between Cultures, Contact Zones, and Communities. South Central Writing Centers Association Annual Conference 2013. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Del Mar College. February 22, 2013. Panel Discussion.

“Irish English Dialectal Features Used by Frank McCourt and James Joyce: How do they Signal Social Class Distinctions?” CHSS Research Colloquium. Sam Houston State University. Huntsville, Texas. April 13, 2012. Poster Presentation.