Eva McCollister Davis wrote stories under the names Eva McCollister and Eva Davis. She was published in the February 1936 periodical Good Stories with the title " Mother Maloney Becomes an Heiress". The cover of the May 1936 issue depicts the "Plight of Mother Maloney" seated with her three children and the dog. The story is published inside. The November 1936 issue includes the story "The Maloneys go to the Fair". Eva Davis' address on "Little Mike" and others is listed in Tacoma, Washington. Davis is her married name. The stories are written in a country-style dialect.

Eva Mabel McCollister was born in 1879 in Garwin, Tama Co, Iowa to Lewis and Sarah DeFrance McCollister. She was married three times; William M . Elliott in 1897, John A. Reinig in 1904 and Charles Oscar Davis in 1919. She died in Tacoma, Washington in 1952.