Sheila Margaret Motton Prize Winner, selected by Heather Treseler
(Photo credit: T. Deaton)
V. Penelope Pelizzon is a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry. Her recent book, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye (Pitt Poetry Series), 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 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. Other recognitions include a Hawthornden Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, and a “Discovery”/The Nation Award. She is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. https://vpenelopepelizzon.com/
“Ill-Starred, “Fado,” and “Euphoria,” from A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye, by V. Penelope Pelizzon, © 2024. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.