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 Americaโs Norma Farber First Book Award. Vincent is a recipient of the Caribbean Writerโs Cecile De Jongh Poetry Prize, the Spanish Repertory Theaterโs Nuestras Voces Playwriting Award, a Poetโs House Emerging Poets Fellowship, a New York Council for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and a New Jersey State Council for the Arts Writerโs Fellowship. His poetry and prose have been published in dozens of magazines and journals and have been anthologized in Saul Williamsโ 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.