Lucia Perillo is the author of six books of poetry. Among her many awards are the Norma Farber First Book Award, the Kate Tufts Prize, the Balcones Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award and the MacArthur Fellowship. Her critically acclaimed memoir, I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature (Trinity University Press), was published in 2007. INSEMINATING THE ELEPHANT (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and received the Bobbitt award from the Library of Congress. Most recently, she is the author of TIME WILL CLEAN THE CARCASS BONES: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). She lives in Olympia, Washington.