Margo PerinMargo Perin is the author of The Opposite of Hollywood and the contributing editor of Only the Dead Can Kill: Stories from Jail and How I Learned to Cook & Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships. She is the poet of San Francisco's pulic memorial Spiral of Gratitude (collaboration with artist Shimon Attie/BALEAF) and the Sonoma Area Coordinator for California Poets in the Schools. A nominee for the Pushcart Prize, Margo Perin has been featured by BBC News, BBC World Service Outlook, O, The Oprah Magazine, Heyday/PEN's Fightin' Words, The Press Democrat, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mexico's El Petit Journal, Holland's Psycologie, and on TV and radio. She has received awards from the Creative Work Fund, Poets & Writers, the California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, Creative Sonoma, and Vintners Community Foundation. Read More Read Less