Lisa Ludden Perry

Lisa Ludden Perry is the author of the poetry chapbook, Palebound, (Flutter Press, 2017). Winner of the 2025 Michael Rubin Work-in-Progress Award from Fourteen Hills for her poetry manuscript-in-progress, In the Body it Nests, others poems have been featured in the Colorado Review, The Dodge (Best of the Net nominee), and Epiphany. First place winner in SF Litquake’s Writing Contest in 2019, her poem “How is Home” was a finalist for the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize judged by Naomi Shihab Nye in 2018, and in 2016 she was finalist for the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards. 

In September 2014, Lisa wrote poems with the 30/30 Project with Tupelo Press. In 2007-8 she was a member of Playground SF's Writers Pool, where she had three short plays staged, Notes Float in on Silenced Mouths, Infinitesimal and The Plant Play. 

Her current prose, a hybrid of life writing and scholarship, examines female anatomical language in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and considers the gendered ramifications in Milton’s epic re-envisioning of Creation while telling the story of her own reproductive landscape. An essay from this collection is part of the cluster “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion” at ASAP Journal. She is one of the co-editors for the upcoming anthology, What is Your NICU?: Redefining the NICU Experience from a Maternal Perspective, from Demeter Press. 

She holds an MFA from Saint Mary's College of California, and MA in English Literatures and a BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and their two children.