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'''Nancy Mercado''' (December, 1959) is a writer, editor, educator and activist whose work focuses on issues of injustice, the environment, and the [[Puerto Ricans in the United States|Puerto Rican]] and [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Latino]] experience in the [[United States]].<ref>PEN American Center Member Profile. [http://www.pen.org/MemberProfile.php/prmProfileID/39084 "Nancy Mercado."] ''PEN.org'', retrieved May 19, 2012.</ref><ref>Malave, George. [http://web.mac.com/georgemalave/www.georgemalave.com/Nancy_Mercado.html "Nancy Mercado."] ''GeorgeMalave.com'', retrieved May 19, 2012.</ref> She forms part of the [[Nuyorican Movement]], a literary genre that branched out from the [[Beat Movement]].
'''Nancy Mercado''' (December, 1959) is a writer, editor, educator and activist whose work focuses on issues of injustice, the environment, and the [[Puerto Ricans in the United States|Puerto Rican]] and [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Latino]] experience in the [[United States]].<ref>PEN American Center Member Profile. [http://www.pen.org/MemberProfile.php/prmProfileID/39084 "Nancy Mercado."] ''PEN.org'', retrieved May 19, 2012.</ref><ref>Malave, George. [http://web.mac.com/georgemalave/www.georgemalave.com/Nancy_Mercado.html "Nancy Mercado."] ''GeorgeMalave.com'', retrieved May 19, 2012.</ref> She forms part of the [[Nuyorican Movement]], a literary genre that branched out from the [[Beat Movement]].


Nancy Mercado was born and raised in [[Atlantic City]], [[New Jersey]]. She received a B.A. from [[Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey]] (1982), with a double major in art/art history and Puerto Rican Studies, and her M.A. from [[New York University]] in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Script Writing and Cinema Studies (1989). Her doctoral degree was awarded in 2004 in English literature, with a concentration in creative writing, from [[Binghamton University]]- SUNY. Mercado's dissertation focused on New York City.<ref>Mercado, Nancy. "Rooms for the Living: New York Poems." PhD diss., State University of New York at Binghamton, 2004. Listed in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, retrieved May 19, 2012. ProQuest document ID 305071933.</ref> She has a long association with the [[Nuyorican Poets Café]] and many of the other poets who emerged from it have been an essential part of her development as a writer.
Nancy Mercado was born and raised in [[Atlantic City]], [[New Jersey]]. She received a B.A. from [[Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey]] (1982), with a double major in art/art history and Puerto Rican Studies, and her M.A. from [[New York University]] in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Script Writing and Cinema Studies (1989). Her doctoral degree was awarded in 2004 in English literature, with a concentration in creative writing, from [[Binghamton University]]- SUNY. Mercado's dissertation focused on New York City.<ref>Mercado, Nancy. "Rooms for the Living: New York Poems." PhD diss., State University of New York at Binghamton, 2004. Listed in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, retrieved May 19, 2012. ProQuest document ID 305071933.</ref>


Mercado is the author of ''It Concerns the Madness'' (Long Shot Productions) and editor of ''if the world were mine'', a children’s anthology published by the [[New Jersey Performing Arts Center]] (NJPAC).<ref>Mercado, Nancy. ''It Concerns the Madness.'' Hoboken, NJ : Long Shot, 2000. ISBN 0965473856.</ref> She was an editor of ''Long Shot'' from 1993 until 2004 and the publication’s editor-in-chief for one of those years. She served on the editorial board for a special issue of ''Letras Femeninas'' in 2005.<ref>''Letras Femeninas (Encuentros Transatlánticos)'' 31.1 (Summer 2005); a publication of the ''Asociación Internacional De Literatura Femenina Hispánica,'' Department of Languages and Literature, Arizona State University.</ref> Mercado also served as guest editor for ''Phati'tude Literary Magazine'''s issue ''¿What's in a Nombre? Writing Latin@ Identity in America''.<ref>SBWIRE. [http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/arts/literature/sbwire-116151.htm "Nancy Mercado Set to Guest Edit phati’tude’s Groundbreaking Latin@ Issue for Winter 2012."] ''SBWire.com'' Nov. 28, 2011, retrieved May 19, 2012.</ref>
Mercado is the author of ''It Concerns the Madness'' (Long Shot Productions) and editor of ''if the world were mine'', a children’s anthology published by the [[New Jersey Performing Arts Center]] (NJPAC).<ref>Mercado, Nancy. ''It Concerns the Madness.'' Hoboken, NJ : Long Shot, 2000. ISBN 0965473856.</ref> She was an editor of ''Long Shot'' from 1993 until 2004 and the publication’s editor-in-chief for one of those years. She served on the editorial board for a special issue of ''Letras Femeninas'' in 2005.<ref>''Letras Femeninas (Encuentros Transatlánticos)'' 31.1 (Summer 2005); a publication of the ''Asociación Internacional De Literatura Femenina Hispánica,'' Department of Languages and Literature, Arizona State University.</ref> Mercado also served as guest editor for ''Phati'tude Literary Magazine'''s issue ''¿What's in a Nombre? Writing Latin@ Identity in America''.<ref>SBWIRE. [http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/arts/literature/sbwire-116151.htm "Nancy Mercado Set to Guest Edit phati’tude’s Groundbreaking Latin@ Issue for Winter 2012."] ''SBWire.com'' Nov. 28, 2011, retrieved May 19, 2012.</ref>

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Nancy Mercado (December, 1959) is a writer, editor, educator and activist whose work focuses on issues of injustice, the environment, and the Puerto Rican and Latino experience in the United States.[1][2] She forms part of the Nuyorican Movement, a literary genre that branched out from the Beat Movement.

Nancy Mercado was born and raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She received a B.A. from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (1982), with a double major in art/art history and Puerto Rican Studies, and her M.A. from New York University in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Script Writing and Cinema Studies (1989). Her doctoral degree was awarded in 2004 in English literature, with a concentration in creative writing, from Binghamton University- SUNY. Mercado's dissertation focused on New York City.[3]

Mercado is the author of It Concerns the Madness (Long Shot Productions) and editor of if the world were mine, a children’s anthology published by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC).[4] She was an editor of Long Shot from 1993 until 2004 and the publication’s editor-in-chief for one of those years. She served on the editorial board for a special issue of Letras Femeninas in 2005.[5] Mercado also served as guest editor for Phati'tude Literary Magazine's issue ¿What's in a Nombre? Writing Latin@ Identity in America.[6]

Nancy Mercado began her literary career in 1979. As such, some consider her to be part of the second wave of writers that constitute the Nuyorican literary movement. Of her work (and about Mercado's grandparents, Don Portolo and Milla and her aunt, Juanita), Dr. Marilyn Kiss writes, "if the personal is political, then such verses as, "He was forgotten/before he could be remembered/by the heads of state/he provided sugar for," written about her grandfather, Don Portolo, "Director of the Sugar Cane Field Workers", and "Milla can speak of/The turn of the century land reforms,/Of the blinded enthusiasm/For a man called Marín..." about her grandmother, Milla, and "Juanita, Providing food from soil,/Creating homes from ashes,/Teaching tolerance by living..." about her aunt in Puerto Rico, offer testimony to the power of this type of poetic vision."[7]

Mercado's work has been featured on the PBS NewsHour special, America Remembers 9/11.[8] She was inducted into "The Museum of American Poetics"[9] and profiled in Latino Leaders Magazine as "one of the most celebrated members of the Puerto Rican literary movement in the Big Apple."[10]

References

  1. ^ PEN American Center Member Profile. "Nancy Mercado." PEN.org, retrieved May 19, 2012.
  2. ^ Malave, George. "Nancy Mercado." GeorgeMalave.com, retrieved May 19, 2012.
  3. ^ Mercado, Nancy. "Rooms for the Living: New York Poems." PhD diss., State University of New York at Binghamton, 2004. Listed in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, retrieved May 19, 2012. ProQuest document ID 305071933.
  4. ^ Mercado, Nancy. It Concerns the Madness. Hoboken, NJ : Long Shot, 2000. ISBN 0965473856.
  5. ^ Letras Femeninas (Encuentros Transatlánticos) 31.1 (Summer 2005); a publication of the Asociación Internacional De Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Department of Languages and Literature, Arizona State University.
  6. ^ SBWIRE. "Nancy Mercado Set to Guest Edit phati’tude’s Groundbreaking Latin@ Issue for Winter 2012." SBWire.com Nov. 28, 2011, retrieved May 19, 2012.
  7. ^ Kiss, Marilyn. "Nancy Mercado." In The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature, ed. Luz Elena Ramírez, 224-225. New York: Facts on File, 2009. ISBN 0-8160-6084-3.
  8. ^ PBS NewsHour. "Special Report: America Remembers 9/11." PBS Video, retrieved May 19, 2012.
  9. ^ "The Museum of American Poetics: Postbeat Era Poets." PoetsPath.com, retrieved May 19, 2012.
  10. ^ Pedrero. Latino Leaders Magazine. 7.6 (2007): 76.

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