V. Penelope Pelizzon is the author of three books of poetry. A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye, longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a TLS Book of the Year and one of LitHub’s “Favorite Poetry Collections” of 2024. Her first book, Nostos, won the Hollis Summers Prize and 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. She is also coauthor of Tabloid, Inc., a critical study of film, photography, and crime narratives from 1927-1958. Her recognitions include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hawthornden Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, and a “Discovery”/The Nation Award. For two decades, she lived part time in Italy, Syria, Namibia, and South Africa as the “trailing spouse” of a U.S. diplomat; her writing and translation work is profoundly shaped by these experiences. Now based in Connecticut, she is an editor at Waywiser Books and a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.