Donna de la Perrière is the author of five collections of poetry: three books — Works of Love & Terror (2019), Saint Erasure (2010), and True Crime (2009), all from Talisman House —  and two chapbooks.

Her work has appeared in journals such as Action, Spectacle, American Letters and Commentary, Brooklyn Rail, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Five Fingers Review, Interim, New American Writing, and Volt, and anthologies such as No Gender: Reflections on the Life and Work of kari edwards (2009) and Winter in America (Still): Poets, Writers, and Artists Respond to a Fractured World (2026).

She founded San Francisco’s Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series in 2004 and curated it until 2019, taught creative writing at San Francisco State University for twenty years, and lives in Oakland with poet Joseph Lease and cats Brontë, Lorca, and Williams.

Her next collection, For You Who Are Being Obliterated: New & Selected Poems is forthcoming from Chax Press in 2027.

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Cover image: Joseba Eskubi, from Insomnia (Belleza Infinita)