Lucia Perillo

WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:

Notes from My Apprenticeship, poetry, in Fall 2008
First Epistle of Lucia to Her Old Boyfriends, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2008–2009
Early Cascade, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2010–2011

Lucia Perillo has published five books of poetry, including Luck Is Luck, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, and a memoir, I’ve Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature. Her most recent collection, Inseminating the Elephant (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry Perillo has taught at Syracuse University, Saint Martin’s University, and Southern Illinois University. She lives in Olympia, Washington.