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Willie Perdomo | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 57–58) New York, New York |
| Occupation | Writer/Teacher |
| Nationality | Puerto Rican |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards | PEN/Open Book Award |
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Willie Perdomo (born 1967) is aPuerto Rican writer. He is the author ofSmoking Lovely: The Remix (Haymarket Books, 2021),The Crazy Bunch (Penguin Poets, 2019),The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Poets, 2014), aNational Book Critics Circle Awards finalist,Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (W. W. Norton & Company), aPoetry Society of AmericaNorma Farber First Book Award finalist, 1996),[1]Postcards of El Barrio (Isla Negra Press, 2002), andSmoking Lovely (Rattapallax Press, 2003),[2] which received aPEN Beyond Margins Award (now known as PEN/Open Book).[3] His children's book,Visiting Langston, received theCoretta Scott King Honor. Winner of the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, the New York City Book Award (2019), and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, Perdomo was also the recipient of aNew York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 2001 and 2009. He is currently an Instructor in English atPhillips Exeter Academy and was appointed State Poet of New York, 2021-2023.
Willie Perdomo was born in 1967 and raised inEast Harlem, New York City.[4] He received an MFA fromLong Island University (LIU) Brooklyn.[5][6] In 2021, he was appointedState Poet of New York.[7] He lives inExeter,New Hampshire.
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