Alice Pero

Alice Pero's work has been published or in many magazines and anthologies, including Studio One, Sanskrit, Fox Cry Review, Carquinez Review, Three Mile Harbor, Salonika, San Gabriel Valley Quarterly, Word Thursday, Très diverse-city, Albatross, Lummox and The California Quarterly. She has won two poetry prizes from the National League of American Pen Women and an award from the California State Poetry Society. Ms. Pero is also a teacher of poetry and has done workshops for schoolchildren for 14 years. She founded the poetry reading, Moonday with poet Anne Silver in 2002 which is held once a month at Village Books in Pacific Palisades. Her first book of poetry, Thawed Stars, published in 1999, was hailed by Kenneth Koch as having "clarity and surprises." Lyn Lifshin has said, "Alice Pero's poems are deliciously open, brimming with leaps, twists and surprises, often joyful and fizzy as a fireworks display."

The romance of discovery, the radiant brilliance, the surprise and laughter are all here in Alice Pero's deeply intelligent insights into the edge of things.

~The Book Reader, America's Most Independent Review of Books