Lucia Perillo (1958–2016) published numerous books of poetry, including Luck Is Luck, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, Inseminating the Elephant, a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths, on the New York Times’s list of “100 Notable Books of 2012”; and On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths (Copper Canyon Press, 2014). Perillo taught at Syracuse University, Saint Martin’s University, and Southern Illinois University.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Again, the Body, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2012–2013
- Early Cascade, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2010–2011
- First Epistle of Lucia to Her Old Boyfriends, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2008–2009
- Notes from My Apprenticeship, poetry, in Fall 2008