The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Andres Cerpa was born on February 26, 1990 in Manhattan, New York. He holds a B.A. from the University of Delaware and an M.F.A. from Rutgers University-Newark. Cerpa is the author of The Vault (Alice James Books, 2021) and Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy (Alice James Books, 2019). In 2017, he received the Alice James Books Editor’s Choice Award and the RHINO Editor’s Choice Award, and he’s a Canto Mundo and MacDowell fellow. Cerpa’s work has been published in The Breakbeat Poets Vol 4: LatiNext, Puerto Rico en mi Corazón, Boricua en la Luna: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Voices, Walking the Line–An Anthology of Parkinson’s Writing, The Nation, The Offing, among others. His significant literary influences include Jeanne Murray Walker, James Wright, Franz Wright, Larry Levis, Piri Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop, and The Puerto Rican Poets Café. Cerpa currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. 

Works Cited

Cerpa, Andrés. Interview. Conducted by Claire Jiménez and Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, 23 July 2021.