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. Business, a novella, is forthcoming from Baobab Press as part of Agency in 2025. Her creative writing and scholarship have appeared in Best American Poetry, POETS.org, The Oxford American, The New Republic, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Stanford University’s Wallace Stenger program, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. 

Selected Publications

Creative Writing:

Agency: 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.