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Peter Ho Davies (born 30 August 1966), is a contemporary British writer of Welsh and Chinese descent.

Born and raised in Coventry, Davies was a pupil at King Henry VIII School. He studied physics at Manchester University and then English at Cambridge University.

In 1992, he moved to the United States to study in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University. He has taught at the University of Oregon and at Emory University and is currently a professor in the Helen Zell MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Davies has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2003, he was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'.