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<ref name="Kiss">Kiss, Marilyn. ''Nancy Mercado biographical entry. The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature''. Facts on File, 2009, p. X.</ref>
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Poet on stage reading workNancy Mercado at the Nuyorican Poets Café, 2008
OccupationWriter, poet
NationalityPuerto Rican
Literary movementPost Beat, Nuyorican, Postmodernism

Nancy Mercado (December, 1959) is a writer, poet, editor, educator and activist whose work focuses on environmental issues, on various kinds of injustice and on the Puerto Rican and Latino experience in the United States. She forms part of the Nuyorican Movement, which branched out of the Beat Movement in the United States.

Career

Mercado is the author of It Concerns the Madness (Long Shot Productions). 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) and the publication’s editor-in-chief for one of those years. She also served as a contributing editor and writer for Letras Femeninas volume XXXI, No 1: The Journal of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica of Arizona State University.

Mercado was featured on PBS Newshour in America Remembers 911. Also featured in The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature (Facts on File) and inducted into The Museum of American Poetics, 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

Other writings

See also

Resources

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

Further reading

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