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V. Penelope Pelizzon

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.

Life

She graduated from University of Massachusetts, Boston, summa cum laude, University of California, Irvine, and University of Missouri in 1998.

She has taught at University of California, Irvine, University of Missouri, Washington and Jefferson College, and University of Connecticut.

Her work has appeared in Poetry, Orion, The Hudson Review, Ecotone, 32 Poems, The Kenyon Review, Field, The New England Review, Narrative, The Harvard Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, Plume', ZYZZYVA, and Fourth Genre.

She is married to Anthony Deaton, a foreign service officer.

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