Gaige Davila

FREELANCE JOURNALIST

About Gaige:

Gaige Davila is from Port Isabel, Texas, a coastal town in the Rio Grande Valley. He started his journalism career freelancing at the Port Isabel-South Padre Press as a senior in high school.

Then, while attending the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English and another in political science, he became a staff writer for The Paisano, the independent student newspaper for the UTSA community.

Gaige wrote for the Paisano for nearly four years, working his way up to News Editor before graduating. After stints in Italy, New York City and Washington, D.C., Gaige moved back to San Antonio as a staff writer for the San Antonio Heron, a nonprofit news organization covering downtown San Antonio’s urban development. He then moved back home, taking over the Port Isabel-South Padre Press as editor, where he remains.

He is also a freelancer for the San Antonio Heron and the San Antonio Sentinel. His writing has appeared in Red Star Magazine, the San Antonio Current and the San Benito News. Gaige’s journalism has led to interviews in the Texas Standard, The Monocle Magazine and The True Story of the Queen Isabella Causeway Collapse podcast. 

When not buried in deadlines, Gaige trains Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu across the Rio Grande Valley, draws tattoo flash, and reads way too many books at the same time.