V. Penelope Pelizzon
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- Poem
- translated poem
2001 Nostos
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V. Penelope Pelizzon is an American poet and essayist. Her first poetry collection, Nostos (2000), won the Hollis Summers Prize, awarded by Ohio University Press, and the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. Her second poetry collection, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time (2014), was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her third, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By the Eye (2024), was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a Times Literary Supplement book of the year and one of Literary Hub's "Favorite Poetry Collections" of 2024. She is co-author of Tabloid, Inc. (2010), a critical study of film, photography, and crime narratives. She is an editor at Waywiser Books and a professor of English at the University of Connecticut.
Pelizzon graduated from University of Massachusetts, Boston, University of California, Irvine, and University of Missouri in 1998.
Academic career
Pelizzon has taught at University of California, Irvine, University of Missouri, Washington and Jefferson College, and University of Connecticut.[1][2]
Writing
Personal life
She is married to Anthony Deaton, a foreign service officer.[13]
