Willie Perdomo

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)http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall95/031383.htm | Willie Perdomo's author page at Norton Poets online] , "Postcards of El Barrio" (Isla Negra Press, 2002), and "Smoking Lovely" (Rattapallax Press, 2003)http://www.rattapallax.com/perdomo.htm | Willie Perdomo's author page at Rattapllax Press] , which received a PEN American Center Beyond Margins Awardhttp://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/280 | Pen America Beyond Margins Awards page] . His children's book, "Visiting Langston", received the Coretta Scott King Honors.

Perdomo was 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 nomineehttp://spindlezine.com/index.php/issues/2007-pushcart-prize-nominees.html | List of Spindle's 2007 Pushcart Prize Nominees ] , and recently was a Woolrich Fellow in Creative Writing at Columbia University.

He was a member of the 1991 Nuyorican Poetry Slam teamAptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008). "Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam." New York City: Soft Skull Press. "Chapter 14: First and Always; Graduates from the NYC Poetry Slam's First Wave" ISBN 1-933-36882-9.] and has performed his poetry on PBS' "The United States of Poetry" and HBO's "Def Poetry"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2029167 | Willie Perdomo' page on IMDB.com] . He is co-founder/publisher of Cypher Books and teaches in New York City.

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