C. E. Perry was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and from Dartmouth Medical School. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Poetry Review, Southeast Review, Alchemy, GSU Review and Pool. She is a family medicine physician at a community health clinic in San Francisco where she lives with her family.

Other poems by C. E. Perry in Verse Daily:
August 10, 2008:   "What Miss Plath Doesn't Tell the Doctor" "My wounds are turning..."

Books by C. E. Perry:

About Night Work:

"Kinesthetic, compassionate, unflinching, sometimes narrative, sometimes surreal, C. E. Perry’s poems turn this world’s full ripeness and strangeness as a farmer turns soil—that out of disruption and loss, something new might take root, grow, and sustain."
—Jane Hirshfield

"Reading C. E. Perry you suddenly discover a deeply intelligent, sane, courageous, fresh voice. It surprises you as any such voice would. I am delighted with the breadth of interest and the wisdom."
—Gerald Stern