WILLIE PERDOMO is the author of Smoking Lovely: The Remix, The Crazy Bunch, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Books), and Where a Nickel Costs a Dime. Winner of the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, the PEN Open Book Award, the New York City Book Award in Poetry, and an Academy of American Poets laureate fellowship, Perdomo was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award. He co-edited the anthology LatiNext and was recently awarded a Letras Boricuas 2024 fellowship. He teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy and was appointed New York State Poet (2021-2023).