Todd Davis's personal essay, "Berkshire Brookies," has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize from the literary journal "Chautauqua," edited and published by the M.F.A. in Creative Writing program at University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
Credit: Penn State
October 31, 2025
ALTOONA, Pa. — Todd Davis' personal essay, "Berkshire Brookies," has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize from the literary journal Chautauqua, edited and published by the M.F.A. in Creative Writing program at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
The essay recounts an afternoon Davis spent fishing for brook trout in a small stream on a farm in western Massachusetts.
Davis is professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona.
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