Willie Perdomo


Willie Perdomo is a Puerto Rican writer. He is the author of Smoking Lovely: The Remix, The Crazy Bunch, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, a National Book Critics Circle Awards finalist, Where a Nickel Costs a Dime, Postcards of El Barrio, and Smoking Lovely, which received a PEN Beyond Margins Award. His children's book, Visiting Langston, received the Coretta Scott King Honor. Winner of the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, the New York City Book Award, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, Perdomo was also the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 2001 and 2009. He is currently an Instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy and was appointed State Poet of New York, 2021-2023.

Biography

Willie Perdomo was born in 1967 and raised in East Harlem, New York City. He received an MFA from Long Island University Brooklyn. In 2021, he was appointed State Poet of New York. He lives in Exeter, New Hampshire.

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