Perrin Ireland is the author of the novels Chatter (Algonquin Books), Ana Imagined (Graywolf Press) and, more recently in 2022, The Violently Colored Life: Her Modigliani Pages (Charles Square Press), which explores the latter days of Jeanne Hébuterne, the last lover of painter Amedeo Modigliani. Ireland's work has been published in AGNI magazine (fiction and poetry), The Boston Globe (book reviews), Post Road magazine (nonfiction), and Fanzine (nonfiction).

Prior to devoting full time to writing, Perrin was Associate Director for Drama and Arts at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and a senior program officer at the National Endowment for the Arts. She was Executive Producer of "Spirit to Spirit: Nikki Giovanni," a documentary film aired nationally during primetime on PBS and selected as "Pick of the Week" by The New York Times and The Washington Post. (Selected exhibitions include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the National Theater in London.)

Perrin has an M.F.A. in Writing and Literature from Bennington College. She and her husband live in Washington, D.C.