Jackie Davis

Jackie Davis (born 1963) is a New Zealand author, poet, and playwright.

Davis was born in 1963 in New Plymouth, New Zealand and grew up in Taranaki. She worked as a registered nurse until 2001, when she became a professional writer. and her second, Swim, in 2003. She was included in Graeme Lay's The New Zealand Book of the Beach 2 and has been published in literary journals including the New Zealand Listener, Takahe, Metro and the Australian School Magazine. and A Time Like This (first performed at Gisborne Unity Theatre in 2017).

Davis has won the 2000 Lilian Ida Smith Award and the 2005–2006 NZSA Foxton Fellowship (now Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship). In 2003 she received a grant from Creative New Zealand to complete her third novel.