V. Penelope Pelizzon is an American poet and essayist.
Her first poetry collection, Nostos (2000), won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award.
Her second poetry collection, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time (2014), was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.
She is also co-author of Tabloid, Inc. (2010), a critical study of film, photography, and crime narratives.
She is married to Anthony Deaton, a foreign service officer.