Cece Peri’s poems have appeared in publications including Malpais Review, Luvina (University of Guadalajara): The Los Angeles Issue, Speechless the Magazine, Askew, NoirCon, Capital & Main, Literary Alchemy, Moonchild Magazine, Beyond the Lyric Moment (Tebot Bach), The Poetry Mystique (Duende Books),  1001 Nights (Redondo Poets), Spillway, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond (Pacific Coast Poetry Series), San Diego Poetry Annual, MORIA, Village Poets Anthology, SALT #2, Pratik: Magazine of Contemporary Writing (Kathmandu, Nepal): The Los Angeles Poetry Issue, 2021 and The Noir Issue, 2023, and Poetry Goes to the Movies (Pacific Coast Poetry Series, 2025).

Cece has received two Pushcart Prize nominations and was selected to read in the ALOUD Series at the Downtown Los Angeles Library. She received the Anne Silver Poetry Award and awards from NoirCon, the Arroyo Arts Collective’s “Poetry in the Windows,” and was a finalist in the Earl Weaver Baseball Writing Prize and the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize.

Cece was born and raised in New York City. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Nowadays, she divides her time between Los Angeles and New York City.

Fun fact: When she’s in LA, the book she’s looking for is inevitably on her nightstand in Brooklyn.