| Willie Perdomo | |
| Birth Place: | New York, New York |
| Occupation: | Writer/Teacher |
| Nationality: | Puerto Rican |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Awards: | PEN/Open Book Award |
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.
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.