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Lucia Perillo has published five books of poetry, most recently Inseminating the Elephant, and a book of essays, I’ve Heard the Vultures Singing,. Perillo 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, and has taught at Saint Martin's College, and in the creative writing program at Southern Illinois University. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Kenyon Review. Luck Is Luck was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and won the Kingsley Tufts Prize. A former MacArthur fellow, Perillo lives in Olympia, Washington with her husband.

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Average rating: 4.02 · 235 ratings · 38 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Luck Is Luck: Poems 4.03 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Inseminating the Elephant 3.98 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Body Mutinies by Lucia Perillo, Chiquita Babb (Designed by) 4.12 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature 3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Oldest Map with the Name America 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Dangerous Life by Lucia Perillo, Peter Davison (Introduction) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	A Form of Optimism by Roy Jacobstein, Lucia Perillo (Introduction) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Willow Springs 58 by Sherman Alexie, Tess Gallagher (contributor), Robert Wrigley (contributor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“It is ferocious, life, but it must eat . . .”
― Lucia Perillo, Luck Is Luck: Poems

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“Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat?
Who doesn't have at least one pair of wax wings out in the garage?”
― Lucia Perillo, Luck Is Luck: Poems

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“I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo.”
― Lucia Perillo, Luck Is Luck: Poems

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