Books
On Remembering My Friends, My First Job, and My Second-Favorite Weezer CD
(Texas Review Press, 2025)
Winner of the 2024 Clay Reynold’s Novella Prize, selected by Steven Dunn
Available on the publisher’s website and on Amazon.
A now-removed part of this book was published by Newtown Literary Journal and is available as a PDF here.
“Throughout this powerful novella, Delgado crafts a narrative that spirals between the present and the past in order to tell the story of Cody Taitano, a mixed-heritage Pacific Islander and Native American who grew up in upstate New York. His voice drew me in immediately: humorous, self-deprecating, and immersed in pop culture. This story, about memory and manhood, friendship and fatherhood, is an exciting and necessary addition to the canon of Indigenous literature.”
—CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ, author of
from unincorporated territory [åmot] and National Book Award winner
Adolescence, Secondhand
(Honeysuckle Press, 2018)
2017 Runner-Up to the Winter Tangerine Chapbook Contest
Available on the publisher’s website.
Signed copies also available from the author for $12 (shipped only within continental U.S. at a flat rate). Email the author at Quinata.Delgado@gmail.com if interested. Limited copies available.
“Francisco Delgado’s Adolescence, Secondhand is brilliant and lyrical, a deeply moving portrait of youth and family. This is some of the best compressed, understated fiction I’ve read in a long time.”
— Brandon Hobson, author of Where the Dead Sit Talking
Fiction
2023
“Futures Worth Hanging Onto,” Mānoa, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 40-52.
2022
“I Love You, Man.” MoonPark Review, June 2022, https://moonparkreview.com/issue-twenty-summer-2022/i-love-you-man/.
2021
“What We Tell Ourselves.” BULL, 2021, http://mrbullbull.com/newbull/fiction/what-we-tell-ourselves/.
“When The World Was Somewhere Else.” Newtown Literary, issue 18, 2021, pp. 51-62.
2020
“Stopping by a store on a Summer Evening,” 2020, https://lost-balloon.com/2020/12/16/stopping-by-on-a-summer-evening-francisco-delgado/.
2019
“Animals.” Lammergeier, 2019, https://www.lammergeier.org/post/animals-francisco-delgado.
2016
“International Politics.” Glimmer Train, issue 97, Fall 2016, pp. 127-130.
“As Kids in Jefferson Park.” Pithead Chapel, vol. 5, issue 9, September 2016, https://pitheadchapel.com/as-kids-in-jefferson-park/.
“The Rock Says.” Prairie Schooner (blog), June 2016, http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/blog/333-sports-short-33-rock-says-francisco-delgado,
Poetry
2024
“A Queens dad in a Mets hat” and “The Meringue Sky Above LaGuardia.” Poets of Queens, vol. 2, edited by Olena Jennings and Jared Beloff, p. 32-33.
2023
“A CHamoru Creation Story but set in upstate New York,” accepted for publication in Na’huyong: An Anthology of CHamoru Literature, University of Guam Press.
2022
“Sky Full of Stars.” JMWW, 4 March, https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2022/03/04/poetry-sky-full-of-stars-by-francisco-delgado/.
2020
“Trains are more than metaphors.” Queensbound, 2020, https://soundcloud.com/kc-trommer/delgado_trains-are-more-than.