Lucia Perillo has published four books of poetry, most recently Luck is Luck (Random House 2005), which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and won the Kingsley Tufts prize from Claremont University. A book of her essays, I’ve Heard the Vultures Singing, appeared last year. Her new book of poems, Inseminating the Elephant, was released by Copper Canyon Press in 2009. A former MacArthur fellow, she lives in Olympia, Washington.