Mo Daviau (pronounced DAH-vee-oh) is the author of the novel Every Anxious Wave, as well as a bunch of essays and such (see below).
She is a graduate of Smith College and the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Mo lives in Portland, Oregon, with her partner in a house with an unusually deep kitchen sink.
Mo is a bookseller and the event host at Annie Bloom’s Books, a beloved Portland institution. You can check out her staff favorites page here.
Other stuff of hers that you can read:
"The Cardigan" (The Butter, January 2015)
"You Are Not Special" (The Offing, June 2015)
"Making Pretend Ashes" (Nailed Magazine, June 2015)
"An Elegy for Adele Morales" (Gobshite Quarterly, Spring 2016)
"Bluebeard, or the Idea of Emily" (Anthologized in The Narcissist's Playbook, published by Nutshell Media, March 2017)
Foreword for the book Some Never Awaken by Louisa Leontiades (2016)
“Stories We Love: ‘The Climber Room’ by Sam Lipsyte,” Fiction Writers Review, May 2019
“Dowry,” The Rumpus, March 2021
“In the Trance Room,” (Essay Daily, December 2021)
Representation: Jenni Ferrari-Adler at Verve Talent & Literary Agency
Cover photo by Linda Abbott