VISIONS AFTER VIOLENCE

COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP

With support from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and The Mellon Foundation, the Visions After Violence Community Fellowship Program is a nine-month fellowship that exemplifies our commitment to centering the experiences, perspectives, and visions of people directly impacted by state violence. Community Fellows work with our team, the Community Advisory Council, Writers and Artists in Residence, and other collaborators to design and carry out a community-based oral history and archival project. In the first half of the fellowship, each fellow conducts 5 to 10 oral history interviews and then utilizes the remaining time to collaborate with the team and each other to activate those stories for the public, culminating in an event.

2025 VISIONS AFTER VIOLENCE
COMMUNITY FELLOW

Starr Davis

Starr Davis is a talented writer and devoted mother whose work appears in The Kenyon Review and Poem-a-Day by the Academy of Poets. She has received fellowships at The Luminary and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and serves as the Creative Nonfiction editor of TriQuarterly. Starr holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York and a BA in Journalism and Creative Writing from the University of Akron. Her personal-political reporting has been recognized by Longreads and featured on podcasts like What You Didn’t Expect in Fertility. A survivor, Starr advocates for women writers and marginalized voices, often speaking on domestic violence and economic injustice against Black mothers. Nominated for awards such as the Pushcart Prize, Starr is a 2024 Writing Freedom Fellow with Haymarket Books. Her poetry collection, AFFIDAVIT will be published by Hanging Loose Press in 2025. She resides in Houston, empowering women through volunteer work.