V. Penelope Pelizzon’s A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye (Pitt Poetry Series, 2024) is a TLS Book of the Year and one of LitHub “Favorite Poetry Collections” of 2024. Her first book, Nostos, won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award;  her second, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time, was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.Pelizzon is also the co-author of Tabloid, Inc: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives, a study of the relations among American sensation journalism, photography, and film from 1927-1958.

Pelizzon’s awards include a 2019 Hawthornden Fellowship, a 2012 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, the 2012 Center for Book Arts chapbook award, and a “Discovery”/ The Nation Award. She is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.