Willie Perdomo

Poet Willie Perdomo is the author of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (book with CD; W. W. Norton, 1995).

He often performs his work at the Nuyorican Poets Café in downtown Manhattan and has been featured in several PBS documentaries, including Words in Your Face and The United States of Poetry. His work has been anthologized in Step into a World: A Global Anthology of The New Black Literature (ed. Kevin Powell, 2000), Listen Up! Spoken Word Poetry (ed. Zoe Angelsey, 1999), Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings (ed. Roberto Santiago, 1995), and Aloud!: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café (eds. Miguel Algarín and Bob Holman, 1994).

He has also written a picture book entitled Visiting Langston (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers) and co-wrote an episode for the HBO series Spicy City.

He was the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Grant.

Willie Perdomo lives in New York City.