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.

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Willie Perdomo
Born	New York, New York
Occupation	Writer/Teacher
Nationality	Puerto Rican
Genre	Poetry
Notable awards	PEN/Open Book Award
Spouse	Sandra Guzman
Website
willieperdomo.com

Awards and honors

• 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) finalist for The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon[5]

See also

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• List of Puerto Rican writers
• List of Puerto Ricans
• Puerto Rican literature

References