Davis Motel, 2024
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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 creative writing and scholarship have appeared in Best American Poetry, POETS.org, The Oxford American, The New Republic, and elsewhere. Business, a novella, is forthcoming from Baobab Press in 2025. The article "Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down Meets 'I Do This, I Do That': Reconnecting Charles Reznikoff and Frank O’Hara" appeared in Studies in Jewish American Literature (2023). She has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Stanford University's Wallace Stegner program, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. She lives in the Rust Belt with her family, where she runs an editing service and teaches workshops. ​​​
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​Note on pronunciation: Pitinii is pronounced pih-TEE-nee, from the Greek "Ptinis."