Willie Perdomo is the author of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime and Smoking Lovely, which received a 2004 PEN America Beyond Margins Award. His work has been included in several anthologies including Metropolis Found, The Harlem Reader, Poems of New York, and Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Bomb, and PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers. He is the author of Visiting Langston, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book for Children, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Henry Holt/Books for Young Readers, 2002) and has been featured on several PBS documentaries including Words in Your Face and The United States of Poetry as well as HBO's Def Poetry Jam and BET's Hughes' Dream Harlem.