Francisco Delgado is a CHamoru writer of fiction and poetry, as well as literary scholarship on contemporary Native American and Indigenous literatures.
His novella, On Remembering My Friends, My First Job, and My Second-Favorite Weezer CD, won the 2024 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize (selected by Steven Dunn) and is published with Texas Review Press.
His chapbook, Adolescence, Secondhand, was runner-up in the 2017 Winter Tangerine Chapbook Contest (judged by Bhanu Kapil) and is published with Honeysuckle Press.
He teaches courses on composition, creative writing, and multi-ethnic American literatures at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, where he created a course devoted exclusively to the literatures of Native North America and the Indigenous Pacific.
Samples of his work are available under “Creative Work” and “Literary Scholarship” on the top menu.
