V. Penelope Pelizzon is an American poet and essayist. Her first poetry collection, Nostos (2000), won the Hollis Summers Prize 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. She is also co-author of Tabloid, Inc. (2010), a critical study of film, photography, and crime narratives. She is a professor at the University of Connecticut.
Her work has appeared in Poetry,[3]Orion,[4]The Hudson Review, Ecotone,[5]32 Poems,[6]The Kenyon Review,[7]Field, The New England Review, Narrative,[8]The Harvard Review,[9]The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review,[10] Plume[11], ZYZZYVA,[12]and Fourth Genre.
She is married to Anthony Deaton, a foreign service officer.[13]
Awards
2021 Editor's Choice Selection for the Quarterly West Chapbook Award,[14] for Of Vinegar Of Pearl
2019 Hawthornden Residency Fellowship for poetry
2012 The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship[15]
2012 Center for Book Arts chapbook award for Human Field[16]
“Memoire on the Heliograph.” Fourth Genre, vol. 6, no. 2, 2004.
Nostos. Ohio University Press. 2000. ISBN978-0-8214-1298-5. Pelizzon's first book of poems won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize.[21]
Tabloid, Inc: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives. Ohio State University Press. 2010. ISBN978-0814292150. Pelizzon and Nancy M. West discuss tabloid newspapers, especially those of the late 1920s and early 1930s, using a combination of narrative and film theory.[22]