Name Lucia Perillo Role Poet | Spouse James Rudy | |
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Education Syracuse University, McGill University Awards MacArthur Fellowship, The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Books On the Spectrum of Possibl, Inseminating the Elephant, I've heard the vultures singing, Luck Is Luck, The Body Mutinies | ||
Nominations Pulitzer Prize for Poetry | ||
The floating rib by lucia perillo
Lucia Maria Perillo (September 30, 1958 – October 16, 2016) was an American poet.
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- The floating rib by lucia perillo
- Lucia perillo at boston court
- Life and career
- Awards
- Poetry
- Non fiction
- Fiction
- References
In 2000, Perillo was recognized with a "genius grant" as part of the MacArthur Fellows Program.
Lucia perillo at boston court
Life and career
Perillo was born in Manhattan on September 30, 1958 and grew up in Irvington, in the suburbs of New York City in the 1960s. She graduated from McGill University in Montreal in 1979 with a major in wildlife management, and subsequently worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She completed her M.A. in English at Syracuse University, while working seasonally at Mount Rainier National Park, and moved to Olympia, Washington in 1987, where she taught at Saint Martin's College. For most of the 1990s, Perillo taught in the creative writing program at Southern Illinois University.
Her work has appeared in many magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Kenyon Review. among others. A traditional poet of mostly free-verse personal reflection, she has written extensively about living with Multiple Sclerosis in her poems and essays. On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths is her most recent book of poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). In 2012 she also published a collection of short fiction, Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain, which was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. She died on October 16, 2016 in Olympia, Washington, aged 58.
Awards
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