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Allison Pitinii Davis
Visiting Professor, Ohio State University
Rosanna Young Oh
Guest Faculty, City College of New York, CUNY
Kimberly Grey
Assistant Professor, University of North Texas
Allison Pitinii (pih-TEE-nee) Davis, PhD, is the author of the hybrid collection Another Architecture, winner of the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press, 2028); Business from Agency 3: Novellas (Baobab Press, 2025); and the poetry collection Line Study of a Motel Clerk (Baobab, 2017). Her creative writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Best American Poetry, POETS.org, The Oxford American, The Georgia Review, The New Republic, 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.
Rosanna Young Oh is the author of The Corrected Version (Diode Editions, 2023), which won the Diode Editions Book Prize and the North American Poetry Book Award. Her writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Yale Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Beloit Poetry Journal, Graywolf Lab, RHINO Poetry, Literary Hub, among other publications. A graduate of Yale (B.A.), the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins (M.F.A.), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A.), Rosanna lives on Long Island. She is currently The Bill & Doris Lippman Visiting Poet at the City College of New York, CUNY. She also works in health tech marketing.
Kimberly Grey is the author of the essay collection A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing, and two books of
poetry, Systems for the Future of Feeling and The Opposite of Light, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize from Persea Books. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, a
Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a Taft Research Grant from the
University of Cincinnati where she earned a PhD in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing.
She is an Advisory Board Member for the Pegasus Physician Writers at Stanford Medical Center,
where she has given lectures, seminars, and writing workshops to doctors across disciplines.
She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction in the graduate
program at the University of North Texas.