Youngstown, Ohio, has left an indelible impression on many writers who have called Youngstown home. This annual series features those in our proud literary legacy. Join us for an unforgettable reading by Youngstown-lived poets Allison Pitinii Davis and Katie Hartsock.
To watch the free livestream visit Lit Youngstown's YouTube channel and click on "Live."
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. Her creative writing has appeared in Best American Poetry, POETS.org, The Oxford American, The New Republic, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Stanford University's Wallace Stegner program, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Katie Hartsock's second poetry collection, Wolf Trees (Able Muse), was listed as one of Kirkus Review's Best Indie Books of 2023. Her poems appear widely, in journals such as Ecotone, Threepenny Review, Pleiades, Tupelo Quarterly, and Image, and are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, At Length, and Iron Horse Literary Review. She is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Oakland University, and lives in Ann Arbor with her family.
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