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| Occupation | Writer, poet |
| Nationality | Puerto Rican |
| Literary movement | Post 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
- It Concerns the Madness. Hoboken: Long Shot Productions, 2000.
- if the world were mine. Editor. Newark: New Jersey Performing Arts Center Publication
Other writings
See also
- La Red Biografica de Puerto Rico
- The Latino Author
- List of Puerto Rican Writers
- Long Shot
- The Louder Arts Project
- The Museum of American Poetics
- Napalm Health Spa
- PBS Newshour: America Remembers 911
- Pen American Center Page
- Poets & Writers Page
- PoetsUSA.com
- Voices e/Magazine letras
- WBAI Radio Libre, Sunday September 26th 2PM
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