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Allison Pitinii Davis

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Allison Pitinii Davis, PhD, is the author of the poetry collection Line Study of a Motel Clerk (Baobab Press, 2017), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Ohioana Book Award, Poppy Seeds (Kent State University Press, 2013) winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize, and Business, a novella in Agency 3: Novellas (Baobab, 2025). Her creative writing and scholarship are forthcoming from or have appeared in Best American Poetry, POETS.org, The Oxford American, The Georgia Review, The New Republic, Studies in Jewish American Literature, and elsewhere. She has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Stanford University's Wallace Stegner program, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at Ohio State University.​​ 

 

Outskirts, her hybrid manuscript exploring global deindustrialization, the 1972 GM Lordstown autostrike, and postindustrial psychogeographies was awarded a 2025 NEA grant and was a finalist for the 2025 National Poetry Series.

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Pronunciation: Pitinii is pronounced pih-TEE-nee, from the Greek "Ptinis."

Events

​​​​​​​​-10/17: Agency 3: Novellas reading at LitYoungstown Fall Festival in Youngstown, Ohio
-AWP 2026: "Democratizing Writing: First-Gen Perspectives on Class, Access, and Academia" and events for Agency 3: Novellas
-5/12: Agency 3: Novellas reading at Lunch with Books at the Ohio County Public Library

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