Allison Pitinii Davis

Allison Pitinii Davis, PhD, is a poet and multigenre writer and professor. Her debut-era poetry collection Line Study of a Motel Clerk was published by Baobab Press in 2017 and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Ohioana Book Award. Poppy Seeds, a chapbook from Kent State University Press, won the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at Ohio State University. Her writing and scholarship have appeared in Best American Poetry, The Oxford American, and The New Republic, among others. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford's Wallace Stegner program. Her forthcoming hybrid collection Another Architecture won the Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press.