Lucia Maria Perillo (September 30, 1958 – October 16, 2016) was an American poet.
[1] In 2000, Perillo was recognized with a "genius grant" as part of the MacArthur Fellows Program.
A traditional poet of mostly free-verse personal reflection, she wrote extensively about living with multiple sclerosis in her poems and essays.
[7] Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones was her last book of poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2016).
Her 2012 collection of short fiction, Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain, was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.