Annabel Davis-Goff
Annabel Davis-Goff is a novelist, essayist, social justice advocate, and a driving force behind Bennington College’s Incarceration in America and Prison Education Initiatives.
Biography
Davis-Goff is the author of three novels: The Dower House, This Cold Country, and The Fox’s Walk, as well as Walled Gardens, a family memoir that describes the life and history of the Anglo-Irish. She is also the editor of an anthology, The Literary Companion to Gambling. Davis-Goff has taught literature at Bennington from 2004-2021 and served as the director of Bennington’s Incarceration in America Initiative and the Prison Education Initiative (PEI) from 2015-2025. Davis-Goff has worked for more than 30 years with organizations that serve homeless families in New York City and is an advocate for prison reform. She is a founding board member of the board of JustLeadershipUSA.