Author Ellen Litman and Poet V. Penelope Pelizzon to Read at the University of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce that UConn professors Ellen Litman and V. Penelope Pelizzon will give a combined fiction and poetry reading TODAY at 6:00 PM in the new Co-Op bookstore in Storrs Center.
A Russian Native, Ellen Litman is the author of two novels, The Last Chicken in America, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award and for the Young Lions Fiction Award, and her newest work, Mannequin Girl. She has received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and her work has appeared in Best New American Voices, Best of Tin House, American Odysseys: Writing by New Americans, Ploughshares, and other publications. She has been a professor at the University of Connecticut since 2007.
V. Penelope Pelizzon is the author of two poetry collections, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time (2014) and Nostos (2000), as well as a poetry chapbook, Human Field. She is co-author of Tabloid, Inc: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives (2010), a study of sensation journalism, photography, and film. Her poetry and essays have appeared widely, and her awards include the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, The Norma Farber First Book Award, The Hollis Summers Prize, and a “Discovery”/The Nation Award. Pelizzon has been a professor at the University of Connecticut since 2001.
This reading, co-sponsored by the University of Connecticut’s Creative Writing Program and the UConn Co-op, is free and open to the public. The new Co-op bookstore is located at One Royce Circle, Unit 101 in Storrs Center. For more information, please visit the Creative Writing Program’s website at www.creativewriting.uconn.edu.
For more information, contact: Sean Forbes at sean.forbes@uconn.edu