Willie Perdomo
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 Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award finalist, 1996), "Postcards of El Barrio" (Isla Negra Press, 2002), and "Smoking Lovely" (Rattapallax Press, 2003), which received a PEN Beyond Margins Award. His children's book, "Visiting Langston", received the Coretta Scott King Honor. Perdomo was also the recipient of a New York  Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 2001 and 2009. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and recently was a Woolrich Fellow in Creative Writing at Columbia University. He is co-founder/publisher of Cypher Books, a VONA/Voices faculty member, and is currently an instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy. He is married to Emmy Award-winning journalist and writer, Sandra Guzman.