Perry has published more than 50 stories and memoirs in dozens of literary journals, has written or edited dozens of articles on the business of information technology, as well as two collections of short fiction, Suspicious Origins and Singing on the Titanic. His latest collection, Dangerous Places, has been named the winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize; it will be published in 2009 by BkMk Press at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. His fiction is frequently anthologized, including appearances in Next Stop Hollywood and Our Mutual Room: Modern Literary Portraits of the Opposite Sex.


A 3-time-winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize and two-time winner of the Boston Fiction Festival Competition, his work has been recorded by the Library of Congress and read on National Public Radio. He received the Sarah Russo Prize for Exile Literature in 2005; he won the 2009 Good Men Foundation Award for a memoir; he has been a fellow at Ucross, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and is a Contributing Editor to The North American Review.

As a professor of English, Perry coordinates the Professional Writing Program at Salem State College.

Complete publishing credits: June 2009