Penthouse Magazine announced last week that their Pet of the Year is Mississippi-girl Erica Ellyson. The sexy brunette is 5′7″, 23-years-old with hazel eyes. She is an architecture student at the Newschool of Architecture & Design in San Diego.

Erica Ellysonwas raised in Pascagoula, Mississippi. As of March 2008, she was living in San Diego, California, where she is working toward a bachelor degree in Architecture at the NewSchool of Architecture & Design.

Erica Ellyson, Penthouse Pet of the Year 2008 has offered to auction herself off on a date for the Rock Against Diabetes charity. The winner gets dinner with Ellyson at Hawaiian Tropic Zone in LA, plus limo service afterwards for V.I.P. service at the Penthouse Club.