Nancy Mercado

Nancy Mercado at the Nuyorican Poets Café, 2008
Occupation	Writer, poet
Nationality	Puerto Rican
Literary movement	Post Beat, Nuyorican, Postmodernism

Nancy Mercado (December, 1959) is a writer, poet, editor, and teacher.

Mercado is the author of It Concerns the Madness (Long Shot Productions).[1] She served as the editor of, if the world were mine; a children’s anthology published by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), was an editor of Long Shot (1993–2004)[2] and the publication’s editor-in-chief for one of those years.

Mercado was featured on PBS Newshour in America Remembers 911. [3] Also featured in The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature (Facts on File) and inducted into The Museum of American Poetics,[4] Mercado was profiled in Latino Leaders Magazine, Volume 7 No 6 as "one of the most celebrated members of the Puerto Rican literary movement in the Big Apple".

Bibliography

Books

• It Concerns the Madness. Hoboken: Long Shot [5] Productions, 2000.
• if the world were mine. Editor. Newark: New Jersey Performing Arts Center Publication

Resources

• Ramirez, Luz Elena (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature. New York: Facts on File, 2009. ISBN 0-8160-6084-3

Further reading

• The Balance of Understanding, Tribes Magazine
• A Blow by Blow, Volume by Volume History of Long Shot, Long Shot
• Book Reviewing African-American Style, The Nation
• End of an era Long Shot to cease publishing, The Hudson Reporter
• First on the Listening List, Top of the Reading Stack for 2001, About.com
• Making the Decolonized Visible: Puerto Rican Poetry of the Last Four Decades, Centro Journal CUNY
• Nuyoricans jubiliant about Supreme Court nominee, San Francisco Chronicle
• Remembering Gregory Corso, The Hudson Reporter
• Yari Yari Pamberi Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization, Educational Media Reviews