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); and the poetry collections 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 have appeared in Best American Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Oxford American, POETS.org, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Stanford University’s Wallace Stenger program, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Selected Publications

Creative Writing:

Another Architecture. Tupelo Press, 2028.

Agency 3: Novellas. Baobab Press, 2025. 

Line Study of a Motel Clerk. Baobab Press, 2017. 

Poppy Seeds. Kent State University Press, 2013.  

Article:

"Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down Meets 'I Do This, I Do That': Reconnecting Charles Reznikoff and Frank O'Hara." Studies in American Jewish Literature, vol. 42 no. 1, 2023, p. 31-54. Project MUSE, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/885198.