V. Penelope Pelizzon is the author of two poetry collections, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time, and Nostos, winner of the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Her work includes the chapbooks Of Vinegar Of Pearl and Human Field. Married to a diplomat, she’s spent much of the past fifteen years living in Syria, Namibia, South Africa, and Italy.
Photograph by Kristin Capp.