Publications, Commissions & Awards
Plexiglass is a beautiful dispatch from the sea line of human oblivion; where teacher and student find insights like a graveyard shift for a church pianist. A smile inching through the corridors of a prison industrial complex; our humanity is repressed, but still lightning. Here is revealed the physics of a trench where poems become veins turning empty space into flesh.
Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Francisco Poet Laureate, winner of the American Book Award for Heaven Is All Goodbyes The Opposite Of Hollywood, an autobiographical novel, is a riveting story of the multi-layered life of a family always on the move, to escape the risk surrounding them due to the father’s criminal acts. The family goes on “vacation,” often in the middle of the night, relocating from country to country. As the young protagonist of the novel lives through all the moves and deceptions and secrecies, she tries to discover her true identity. The writing is lyrical, the plot is gripping. Nahid Rachlin, author of Persian Girls |
Spiral of Gratitude: A public memorial with artist Shimon Attie and the San Francisco Arts Commission 2014
Short Fiction & Nonfiction
Treasure House Painted Hills Review youtalkintame? Tenderloin Times California Tomorrow Issues World University News These stories offer a remarkable display of confusion, helplessness, and anger mixed with adoration and love, as well as formidable talent… Publishers Weekly |
Productions
What She Would Say Film by Erica Jordan (1996) Geography excerpt broadcast on KPFA Radio (1995) Rhino Fresh in Ethnic Cleansing, Downy Fresh Marin Headlands, CA (1994) What She Would Say, Lionheart Theater, Chicago, IL (1993) Residencies
Hedgebrook Squaw Valley Norcroft Writers Colony
The battlefields of women’s psyche are wonderfully revisited in this multifaceted collection, each story deeply personal and immediate, historically unique, stylistically diverse, collectively resonant. Janet Fitch, author, “White Oleander” |
Awards
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize for Short Fiction Poets & Writers San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant Creative Work Fund Professional and Amateur Writers Association, Honorary Mention North Texas Professional Writers Assoc. for Creative Nonfiction Semi-Finalist for James Award of the Heekin Foundation for Fiction Treasure House Prize/Fiction Paintbrush Award/Fiction This is a breathtaking, heartbreaking book of poetry by Margo Perin. Elaine Elinson, American Book Award Gold Medalist for Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California |