Donna de la Perrière is the author of TRUE CRIME (Talisman House, 2009), SAINT ERASURE (Talisman House, 2010), and WORKS OF LOVE & TERROR (Talisman House, 2019), as well as two chapbooks—Night Calendar (Omerta Publications, 2017) and First Love (The Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange, 2013). She teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs at San Francisco State University and California College of the Arts and curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series in San Francisco.