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