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Willie Perdomo is the author of The Crazy Bunch (Penguin Books, 2019); The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Books, 2014); Smoking Lovely (Rattapallax, 2003), winner of the PEN Beyond Margins Award; and Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (W. W. Norton, 1996), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award.
Perdomo is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Pushcart Prize nominee, a former recipient of the Woolrich Fellowship in Creative Writing at Columbia University, a two-time New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow, winner of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, the New York City Book Award, and the PEN Open Book Award. The founder/publisher of Cypher Books, he is co-editor of the Breakbeat Poetry series anthology, Latínext. A Lucas Arts Literary Fellow and a core faculty member at VONA/Voices of our Nation Writing Workshop, he currently teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy.
Bibliography
Poetry
The Crazy Bunch (Penguin Books, 2019)
The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Books, 2014)
Smoking Lovely (Rattapallax, 2003)
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (W. W. Norton, 1996)
Children's Books
Clemente!, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Henry Holt, 2010)
Visiting Langston, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Perfection Learning, 2005)
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