Bio

Allison Pitinii Davis, PhD, is the author of the poetry collections 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 novella Business is forthcoming from Baobab Press in 2025. Her creative writing and scholarship have appeared in Best American Poetry, poets.org, The Oxford American, The Missouri Review, Dusie, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and elsewhere. She has received support from the Ohio State Creative Writing Program, the Stanford University Creative Writing Program, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, the Severinghaus Beck Fund, and other organizations. She lives with her family in the Rust Belt, where she runs an editing service and teaches workshops.