Thomas Davis has had a long career in American Indian education, beginning with the founding of the Menominee County Community School in Northern Wisconsin and later the College of Menominee Nation. He has served as president or chief academic officer at Lac Courtes Oreilles Ojibwe College, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, Little Priest Tribal College, and Navajo Technical University. At Bay Mills Community College, he worked with Indian Head Start in Washington, DC to establish one of the earliest virtual degree-granting programs in the United States. Davis has had an equally long career as a poet and writer. His novel, In the Unsettled Homeland of Dreams, won the Edna Ferber Fiction Award in 2019. He has had two book-length epic poems published, The Weirding Storm, A Dragon Epic and An American Spirit, An American Epic. His acclaimed nonfiction book, Sustaining the Forest, the People, and the Spirit focuses on the sustainable development history and practices of the Menominee Indians of Northern Wisconsin. Davis has edited three small magazines and, with his wife, the poet-artist Ethel Mortenson Davis, owns Four Windows Press, a small publishing house.