Lucia Perillo has published four books of poetry. She has won the Norma Farber Award for the best “First Book” of 1989. She has also won the Kate Tufts Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Prize, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Her most recent collection of poetry is titled Luck is Luck and was published in 2005, which was nominated for the L.A. Times prize and won the Kingsley Tufts award.

Her poetry was first published in Volume 20.2, which featured the poems “Beige Trash,” and “Home.” Volume 25.1 featured four of her poems: “Given unlimited space, the dead expand limitlessly,” “Poem without Breasts,” “Fizz Ed,” and “Viagra.” Her most recent appearance in the magazine was in Volume 26.1, with the poems “Juarez,” and “Wormhole Theory.”

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