Donna de la Perrière

Donna de la Perrière is the author of the forthcoming True Crime (Talisman House, 2009). Her work has appeared in Agni, American Letters and Commentary, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Five Fingers Review, First Intensity, Interim, The New England Review, New American Writing, Parthenon West Review, Talisman, Volt, Xantippe, and other journals, as well as Faux Press's Bay Poetics anthology.

Readings and residencies include those at the University of San Francisco Poetry Festival, the University of Denver, Colorado State University, the New England Institute of Art and Communication, New York's Teachers and Writers Collaborative, The Boston Poetry Festival, San Francisco's Galeria de la Rosa, Small Press Traffic, New York's Zinc Bar series, Boston's City Arts series, National Public Radio, and elsewhere.

She curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series every summer at San Francisco's The Lab gallery and performance space.