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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, and Poppy Seeds (Kent State University Press, 2013) winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize. Business, a novella, is forthcoming from Baobab Press in 2025 and available for preorder. Her creative writing has appeared in Best American Poetry, POETS.org, The Oxford American, The New Republic, and elsewhere. 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, Stanford University's Wallace Stegner program, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. She lives with a Russian historian and their family in the Rust Belt. In Fall 2025, she will join Ohio State University as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Poetry. ​​​​

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​Note on pronunciation: Pitinii is pronounced pih-TEE-nee, from the Greek "Ptinis."