Puma Perl

 Puma Perl is a widely published poet and writer, as well as a performer, journalist, photographer, and producer. She is the author of two chapbooks, Ruby True and Belinda and Her Friends, and three full-length poetry collections, knuckle tattoos, and Retrograde, (great weather for MEDIA), and Birthdays Before and After (Beyond Baroque. She was the creator, curator, and producer of Puma Perl’s Pandemonium, which launched at the Bowery Electric in 2012 and, until 2020, brought spoken word together with rock and roll. She wrote for The Villager from 2013-2018, and received two honorable mentions and one first place award from the New York Press Association in recognition of her coverage of the arts. Since 2019, she has been a staff member of ChelseaCommunityNews.com and, in 2020, started a weekly column called "Writing the Apocalypse," in which a new poem was published in each edition. In 2016, she received the Acker Award in the category of Writing. In May of 2021, she was honored to be the HOWL Happening! artist in residence. She is the front woman and lyricist for The Puma Perl Band, which merges poetry and rock and roll. Her record album, "Under Tenement Skies," a collaboration of her poetry with Joe's Sztabnik's original music and production, was released on 9/15/24.