Robert Perchan

Robert Perchan’s latest books are the comic novella Tropic of Scorpio (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2022) and Last Notes from a Split Peninsula: Poems and Prose Poems (UnCollected Press, 2021). His poetry collection Fluid in Darkness, Frozen in Light won the 1999 Pearl Poetry Prize and was published by Pearl Editions in 2000. He also has two poetry chapbooks to his credit -- Mythic Instinct Afternoon (2005 Poetry West Prize) and Overdressed to Kill (Backwaters Press, 2005 Weldon Kees Award) – as well as the avant-la-lettre flash novella Perchan’s Chorea: Eros and Exile (Watermark Press, Wichita, 1991) which was translated into French and published by Quidam Editeurs (Meudon) in 2002. In 2007 his short short story “The Neoplastic Surgeon” won the on-line Entelechy: Mind and Culture Bio-fiction Prize. He continues to eat and drink in Busan, South Korea, under the bemused gaze of his translator wife, Mi-kyung Lee. You can see more about him at robertperchan.com.