Lucia Perillo
Lucia Perillo grew up 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 then completed her M.A. in English at Syracuse University while working seasonally at Mount Rainier National Park.
In 1987 she moved to Olympia, Washington, where she taught at Saint Martin’s College. For most of the 1990s Perillo taught in the creative writing program at Southern Illinois University. She now lives back in Olympia with her husband and dog. Here are two interviews with Perillo: The American Poetry Review Poetry Foundation |
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