V. Penelope Pelizzon’s second poetry collection, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time, was published in 2014 (The Waywiser Press). Her first book, Nostos (Ohio University Press 2000), won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. 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. Recent poems appear in Tin House online, Plume, Ecotone, 32 Poems, Bennington Review, The Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Harvard Review, and Orion.