Vincente Perez

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Vincente Perez is a Black Mexican-American performance poet, scholar, and writer working at the intersection of poetry, hip-hop, and digital culture. He examines the ways that poetry and hip-hop narrate life otherwise. He is a PhD Candidate in the Performance Studies program at UC Berkeley (2025) & holds a BA in Anthropology and Comparative Race & Ethnic Studies from The University of Chicago. His debut poetry chapbook, Other Stories to Tell Ourselves (Newfound 2023), won an Eric Hoffer Finalist Award! His work has been featured in Obsidian, Philadelphia Stories, Poetry.onl, Poet Lore, Association of Internet Researchers, Honey Literary, and more.

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