Willie Perdomo

Willie Perdomo is a Puerto Rican poet and children's book author. He is the author of The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Poets, 2014), a National Book Critics Circle Awards finalist, Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (W. W. Norton & Company, a Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award finalist, 1996),[1] Postcards of El Barrio (Isla Negra Press, 2002), and Smoking Lovely (Rattapallax Press, 2003),[2] which received a PEN Beyond Margins Award.[3] His children's book, Visiting Langston, received the Coretta Scott King Honor. Perdomo was also the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 2001 and 2009. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee,[4] and recently was a Woolrich Fellow in Creative Writing at Columbia University. He is co-founder/publisher of Cypher Books, a VONA/Voices faculty member, and is currently an instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy. He is married to Emmy Award-winning journalist and writer, Sandra Guzman.

Willie Perdomo
BornNew York, New York
OccupationWriter/Teacher
NationalityPuerto Rican
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsPEN/Open Book Award
SpouseSandra Guzman
Website
willieperdomo.com

Awards and honors
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See also

References
  1. Willie Perdomo's author page at Norton Poets online.
  2. Willie Perdomo's author page at Rattapallax Press.
  3. Pen America Beyond Margins Awards page.
  4. List of Spindle's 2007 Pushcart Prize Nominees.
  5. "National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2014". National Book Critics Circle. January 19, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
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