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Revision as of 04:12, 12 February 2012
 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.
Also featured in The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature (Facts on File) and inducted into The Museum of American Poetics,[3] 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
Book
- It Concerns the Madness. Hoboken: Long Shot [4] Productions, 2000.
Resources
- Ramirez, Luz Elena (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature. New York: Facts on File, 2009. ISBN 0-8160-6084-3