Vincent Toro

Vincent Toro is a Puerto Rican poet, playwright, and professor. He is the author of two poetry collections: Tertulia and Stereo.Island.Mosaic. , which won the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. Vincent is a recipient of the Caribbean Writer's Cecile De Jongh Poetry Prize, the Spanish Repertory Theater's Nuestras Voces Playwriting Award, a Poet's House Emerging Poets Fellowship, a New York Council for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and a New Jersey State Council for the...See more

Vincent Toro is a Puerto Rican poet, playwright, and professor. He is the author of two poetry collections: Tertulia and Stereo.Island.Mosaic. , which won the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. Vincent is a recipient of the Caribbean Writer's Cecile De Jongh Poetry Prize, the Spanish Repertory Theater's Nuestras Voces Playwriting Award, a Poet's House Emerging Poets Fellowship, a New York Council for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and a New Jersey State Council for the Arts Writer's Fellowship. His poetry and prose have been published in dozens of magazines and journals and have been anthologized in Saul Williams' CHORUS , Puerto Rico En Mi Corazon, Best American Experimental Writing 2015, Misrepresented People, and The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT . He is an Assistant Professor of English at Rider University, is a Dodge Foundation Poet, and is a contributing editor for Kweli Literary Journal. See less