Willie Perdomo is a Puerto Rican poet and children's book author. He is the author of ''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

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Norma Farber First Book Award The Norma Farber First Book Award is given by the Poetry Society of America "for a first book of original poetry written by an American and published in either a hard or soft cover in a standard edition during the calendar year". Poetry Society of ...

finalist, 1996),Willie Perdomo's author page
at Norton Poets online. ''Postcards of El Barrio'' (Isla Negra Press, 2002), and ''Smoking Lovely'' (Rattapallax Press, 2003),
at Rattapallax Press. which received a PEN Beyond Margins Award.Pen America Beyond Margins Awards page.
/ref> His children's book, ''Visiting Langston'', received the

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Honor. Perdomo was also the recipient of a

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Poetry Fellowship in 2001 and 2009. He is a

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nominee,List of Spindle's 2007 Pushcart Prize Nominees.
/ref> and recently was a Woolrich Fellow in Creative Writing at

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. He is co-founder/publisher of Cypher Books, a VONA/Voices faculty member, and is currently an instructor in English at

Phillips Exeter Academy (not for oneself) la, Finis Origine Pendet (The End Depends Upon the Beginning) gr, Χάριτι Θεοῦ (By the Grace of God) , location = 20 Main Street , city = Exeter, New Hampshire , zipcode ...

. He is married to Emmy Award-winning journalist and writer, Sandra Guzman.

Awards and honors

*2014

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References

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