Stevie Davies was born in Swansea, Wales and spent a nomadic childhood in Egypt, Scotland and Germany.
Her first novel Boy Blue (1987) won the Fawcett Society Book Prize. Closing the Book (1994) was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Fawcett Society Book Prize. The Web of Belonging (1997) was dramatized for ITV by Alan Plater. Her eighth novel, The Element of Water (2001), was longlisted both for the Booker and the Orange Prizes and won the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award for 2002; Stevie adapted it as a radio play for BBC Radio 4. Her ninth novel, Kith and Kin was longlisted for the Orange Prize and the film rights have been bought.