M. T. Davis is an independent scholar writing and researching in the field of Ancient Near Eastern languages and cultures as well as in 20^th century Modernist literature and visual arts. He has served as contributor and editor on the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project. He has published poetry and translation in The Paris Review and Press. He most recently co-edited a run of Ezra Pound’s correspondence, Ezra Pound and Globe: The Complete Correspondence (Bloomsbury, 2016). He is currently working on a biography of the artist/writer Joe Brainard and, of course, a novel.