Davis Enloe was born and raised in Rutherford County, North Carolina, in the Appalachian hills where his novel, Into the Night Woods, unfolds. He was raised on cornbread and buttermilk, blackstrap molasses, summer revivals, and the not so occasional dose of hickory tea. He lived in Kodiak, Alaska, in the eighth and ninth grade when much of the abandoned WWII infrastructure still dotted the island—an endless source of imagination for an adventurous teenager. He has returned to the island several times since leaving to graduate high school in Greer, South Carolina and to later attend the University of North Carolina Pembroke.
He has thrived in jobs as varied as shrimp cannery worker to schoolteacher, from steak house manager to print mill flunky. He is sports car enthusiast and once restored old Datsun Z-cars as a hobby, though currently in his garage sits a fully restored 1965 Corvette that his wife has named, The Mistress. A third love is collecting sports cards, and he once sold a valuable Patrick Mahomes rookie card and donated the proceeds to the Kenyon Review. Davis was honor graduate at his state Officer Candidate School, and ultimately accepted a fulltime job with the South Carolina Army National Guard.
After retiring, he completed his MFA (Poetry) at Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina and has also attended numerous major writer workshops, including Sewanee, Bread Loaf, and Kenyon. His poetry has been published in such literary journals as Barrow Street, Main Street Rag, and Cold Mountain. His fiction has been featured in the Chariton Review, Broad River Review (Honorable Mention, Ron Rash Award in Fiction), The Saint Ann’s Review, Hunger Mountain Online (Honorable Mention Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize), and most recently featured in Appalachian Review (Finalist, Denny C. Plattner Award).
Regal House Publishing is proud to bring you Davis Enloe’s Into the Night Woods in the spring of 2026.
