D.A. Perryman
D.A. Perryman is a novelist, essayist, and poet with one mission: Bring Truths that go unseen into the light.
Her newest work, SHIFT, is a living book in the form of a pixel RPG. A woman who can’t remember her own name is pulled back to Lake Psychosis, the ultraviolet world she built, where every story she ever wrote is waiting and every character she ever loved has forgotten who they are. To bring them home, she has to remember herself first. SHIFT grows chapter by chapter, alongside the books it’s built from.
Her flagship series, Perfect Kills, chronicles the odyssey of Sydney Reed, a young woman navigating family secrets, repressed trauma, and organized crime in the underground of Las Vegas’s art scene after burning bridges back home in New England’s high society.
In Babble: Verses Dredged from Lake Psychosis, her collection of tercets and staccato free verse prose comes together to tell the story of an eccentric community of individuals who all emerged from an ultraviolet lake with no memories of who they are or how they got there. Together, they face the past to regain their lost memories and build a new life on purple shores.
Perryman’s philosophical essay and noir short story collection, Murasaki Dreaming, dissects how artists in all disciplines fight for their creative freedoms using Transcendentalist, Absurdist, and Jungian philosophies blended into three core principles: Spin Sorrow Into Silk; Proclaim Creative Sovereignty; Accept You Are Your Art.
Uplifting artists and illuminating Shadowed Truths keeps D.A. Perryman breathing, and as long as she is, she endeavors to use that breath to fan the flames of creative spirits.
