Jamey Davidsmeyer grew up in Jacksonville, IL before attending Illinois State University where he spent most of his time working for the student paper and skipping classes to watch movies on free HBO in the dorms. He wrote several short stories about ghosts and demons, most of which his roommates hated, before graduating in 2008 and moving west to Los Angeles. in 2011, he earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. He then served as an AmeriCorps VISTA in Riddle, OR and started writing short fiction again. His story “That View from the Top of a Mountain” was named Jury’s Choice at the Northwest Service Symposium in 2012. That year, he also published “Couvade Syndrome” which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2012 by JMWW.
In August of 2012, he decided Oregon was just too hospitable and moved again, this time to attend the University of North Dakota. He graduated in 2015 and moved, again, this time to Olympia, WA where he works and writes alongside his wife and two dogs.