Printable view of V. Penelope Pelizzon

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

CT

Connecticut US

Bio:

V. Penelope Pelizzon’s next book, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye, will be published in 2024 in the Pitt Poetry Series. Her first, Nostos, won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, and her second, published in both the US and UK, was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. She is also the co-author of Tabloid, Inc., a critical study of film, photography, and crime narratives. Pelizzon’s recognitions include a 2020 Quarterly West editor’s choice award for her chapbook Of Vinegar Of Pearl, a 2019 Hawthornden Fellowship, an Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, and the Center for Book Arts chapbook award for her collection Human Field. She is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Twitter/X:

@vpenpelizzon

Website:

https://penelopepelizzon.com/ [2]

Prizes won:

Hawthornden Residency Fellowship, The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, The Center for Book Arts Chapbook Award, Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, The Norma Farber First Book Award, The Hollis Summers Prize for a first book of poetry, The Kenneth Rexroth Memorial Translation Award for four poems of Umberto Saba.