About
Laura K. Davis is a writer and a professor who works in the areas of Canadian Literature and Writing Studies. She writes both creatively and academically and has published books, articles, and reviews on Canadian writers such as Alice Munro, Margaret Laurence, and Joy Kogawa, as well as on educational topics such as how to teach writing. She is a full-time faculty member in the English program at Red Deer Polytechnic in Alberta, Canada, where she has been teaching since 2008. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, an M.A. from the University of Victoria, and a B.A. from the University of British Columbia. As well as teaching, researching, and writing, she enjoys spending time with her family, and teaching and practicing yoga.
I believe we have to live, as long as we live, in the expectation or hope of changing the world for the better. That may sound naive. It may even sound sentimental. Never mind. I believe it.
Margaret Laurence, Dance on the Earth: a Memoir
My Work
I am currently writing a novel, All the Hidden Things, a work of upmarket literary fiction about an English professor, Kate Davidson, whose life is upended when she receives a letter from her daughter, whom she placed in the closed adoption system when Kate was only 17 years old.
Now, she must go back to her childhood cottage to confront her past and the trauma she's been running from for decades. Set in the Canadian Prairies and the lush coast of Vancouver Island, the novel is about the consequences of secrets and the painful necessity of forgiveness. At its core, it asks: how can we rebuild home and self when so much has been lost?
My most recent monograph, Alice Munro and the Art of Time, was published by the University of Alberta Press in 2025. It examines how the Canadian short story writer and Nobel Prize winner challenges traditional notions of time in her stories. Considering short stories written across her career, I examine the relationship between the past and the present, material experiences of being, story structure, memory, and memoir.
Now, she must go back to her childhood cottage to confront her past and the trauma she's been running from for decades. Set in the Canadian Prairies and the lush coast of Vancouver Island, the novel is about the consequences of secrets and the painful necessity of forgiveness. At its core, it asks: how can we rebuild home and self when so much has been lost?
My most recent monograph, Alice Munro and the Art of Time, was published by the University of Alberta Press in 2025. It examines how the Canadian short story writer and Nobel Prize winner challenges traditional notions of time in her stories. Considering short stories written across her career, I examine the relationship between the past and the present, material experiences of being, story structure, memory, and memoir.