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name: "Ayanna Floyd Davis"
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updated: "2026-09-17T02:29:14.045743+00:00"
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# Ayanna Floyd Davis

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Also known as:** Ayanna Floyd, Ayanna A. Floyd

## Biography

Ayanna Floyd Davis is a television writer and producer. She received an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and moved to Los Angeles in 1998. She was the first TV drama writing fellow selected for the Walt Disney Studios/ABC Writers' Fellowship Program and began her career with an episode of the medical drama *Gideon's Crossing* (2000).

Her credits include writing and producing on medical series such as *Private Practice* (2007–2011) and *Strong Medicine*, as well as *Hannibal* (2014), *Falling Skies* (2015), *Empire* (2015–2016), *Hit the Floor* and *The Chi* (2018–2019), where she served as showrunner for the second season. Later work includes *The Best Man: The Final Chapters* (2022) and *Power Book II: Ghost* (2024). She has also held leadership roles including vice president of the Organization of Black Screenwriters.

*Sources: imdb.com, finaldraft.com, today.emich.edu, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hannibal* (2013), Fi1m 81, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/hannibal-2013.md)

## Also known for

- *Falling Skies* (2011), Writer
- *Empire* (2015), Writer
- *Private Practice* (2007), Writer

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