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Willie Perdomo
Born1967 (age 56–57)
New York, New York
OccupationWriter/Teacher
NationalityPuerto Rican
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsPEN/Open Book Award
Website
willieperdomo.com

Willie Perdomo (born 1967) is a Puerto Rican writer. He is the author of Smoking Lovely: The Remix (Haymarket Books, 2021), The Crazy Bunch (Penguin Poets, 2019), 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 (now known as PEN/Open Book).[3] 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 (2019), 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.[4] He received an MFA from Long Island University (LIU) Brooklyn.[5][6] In 2021, he was appointed State Poet of New York.[7] He lives in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Awards and honors

See also

References

  1. ^ Willie Perdomo's author page at Norton Poets online.
  2. ^ Willie Perdomo's author page at Rattapallax Press.
  3. ^ PEN America Literary Awards| PEN Open Book Award | History. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
  4. ^ Jiang, Jacqueline (April 15, 2022). "The Drumbeat, la ciudad y la Descarga: The Plurality of Willie Perdomo's 'The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon'". The Latinx Project. New York University. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
  5. ^ "Willie Perdomo, Poet Laureate of New York, 2021–2023". poets.org. Academy of American Poets. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
  6. ^ "Willie Perdomo, Instructor in English". exeter.edu. Phillips Exeter Academy. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
  7. ^ "State Author and State Poet honorees". New York State Writers Institute. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  8. ^ "National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2014". National Book Critics Circle. January 19, 2015. Archived from the original on January 22, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
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