Willie Perdomo is the author of The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Milton Kessler Poetry Award, winner of the International Latino Book Award, and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominee; Smoking Lovely, winner of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award; and Where A Nickel Costs a Dime, a Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award finalist. His work has appeared in Th