Outskirts, also known as Another Architecture, winner of the Dorset Prize, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2028.
The postindustrial/postgenre/postpartum collection explores global deindustrialization, the 1972 GM Lordstown autostrike, and psychogeography. Read a selection at the Oxford American.
Bio
Multigenre writer and professor
Allison Pitinii Davis, PhD, is the author of the hybrid collection Another Architecture, selected for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press, 2028); Business from Agency 3: Novellas (Baobab Press, 2025); the poetry collection Line Study of a Motel Clerk (Baobab, 2017); and Poppy Seeds (Kent State University Press, 2013), selected for the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize. Her creative writing and scholarship are forthcoming from or have appeared in Best American Poetry, POETS.org, The Oxford American, The Georgia Review, The New Republic, Studies in Jewish American Literature, and elsewhere. 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 elsewhere. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at Ohio State University, where she was named the 2025-2026 English Graduate Organization Professor of the Year. She was born in Youngstown, Ohio.
Pronunciation: Pitinii is pronounced pih-TEE-nee, from the Greek Ptinis.
Contact: allisonpitiniidavis [at] gmail [dot] com
