Willie Perdomo

Poet and Author

Willie Perdomo is a prize-winning Nuyorican poet and children's book author. He is the author of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (W. W. Norton & Company, 1996), Postcards of El Barrio (Isla Negra Press, 2002), and Smoking Lovely (Rattapallax Press, 2003), which received a PEN American Center Beyond Margins Award.

His children's book, Visiting Langston, received the Coretta Scott King Honors. Perdomo was also the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 2001, and a Fiction Fellowship in 2006. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and recently was a Woolrich Fellow in Creative Writing at Columbia University. He is co-founder/publisher of Cypher Books and teaches in New York City.

He currently lives in New York City and is working on his next project, Emergency Money. Perdomo is Co-Publisher of Cypher Books, a publisher of today's most necessary poetry.

Visit Willie's web site at www.willieperdomo.com.

Willie Perdomo

Poet and Author

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