Russell Davis (born 1970) is an American author born in Missouri. His publications include more than 20 novels and 30 short stories. Davis, who writes in many genres, was the president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) from 2008 to 2010, and a member of the Western Writers of America (WWA). He has also worked as an editor and book packager. Davis has written for publication under the names David Cian, Garrett Dylan and Dylan Garrett, D.L. Lawson, Cliff Ryder, Jenna Solitaire and Christopher Tracy as well as his real name. Cliff Ryder is a house pseudonym shared by multiple writers.

Selected works

Novels

Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers

Transformers

The Twilight Zone

Standalone novels

As by Cliff Ryder

Among the Room 59 spy novels published under the name Cliff Ryder, a house pseudonym shared by multiple writers, Davis takes credit for two for which he has been acknowledged under the pseudonym Garrett Dylan.

Collections

Anthologies edited

Short fiction