Joshua Davis

Joshua Davis grew up in California. After graduating college, Davis worked several odd jobs in his early twenties before co-writing an article with a friend for a local San Francisco paper, starting his journalism career. In 2001, Davis became part of the U.S. Arm-wrestling Team and traveled internationally to compete, though he has never won a competitive match. He directed a documentary film about his experiences and won Best Documentary at the Telluride Mountain Film Festival. In 2003, Davis covered the Iraq war for Wired Magazine and became a Contributing Editor. In 2005, Random House published Davis’s memoir, The Underdog, which details his journey through some of the world’s most outlandish competitions. In 2013, Davis and Joshuah Bearman formed EPIC, a magazine devoted to telling extraordinary true stories. In 2014, Davis published Spare Parts, which was then made into a feature film. He currently lives in San Francisco and continues to write for both Wired and EPIC.