Edgardo Vega Yunqué is the author of No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew it Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Comin Home Again, The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle and two collections of short stories. Gene Santoro of the Washington Post said of Vega's work, he “grabs the American tiger of race by the tail. With the wry courage of a clear-eyed idealist, he dismantles cultural misconceptions and makes us squirm with uncomfortable self-recognition even as we delight in his words.”

An alumnus of the Jefferson Park Clubhouse of The Boys' Club of New York, Ed was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in East Harlem . He currently lives in Brooklyn .

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