Allison Pitinii Davis

b. 1986

Current City, State, Country

Wheeling, West Virginia, USA

Birth City, State, Country

Youngstown, Ohio, USA

Biography

Allison Pitinii Davis, PhD, is the author of Line Study of a Motel Clerk (Baobab Press, 2017), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Ohioana Book Award, and Poppy Seeds (Kent State University Press, 2013) winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, POETS.org, The Oxford American, The New Republic, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, and the Severinghaus Beck Fund for Study at Vilnius Yiddish InstituteShe lives with her family in Wheeling, WV, where she runs workshops and an editing service.

Published Works

Poetry
Line Study of a Motel Clerk (Baobab Press, 2017)
Poppy Seeds (Kent State University Press, 2013)

Fiction
Business: a novella (Baobab Press, forthcoming 2025)

Scholarship/Reviews
Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down Meets ‘I Do This, I Do That’: Reconnecting Charles Reznikoff and Frank O’Hara” (Studies in Jewish American Literature, 2023)

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