Anjanette Delgado

Biography

Anjanette Delgado (Santurce, 1967) writes about sexilio, rootlessness and social justice. Winner of an Emmy Award for her human interest journalism, she is the author of the novels: La píldora del mal amor (Atria, 2008) and La clarividente de la Calle Ocho (Penguin Random House, 2014). She has written poetry, fiction, and essays for the New York Times (Modern Love; Opinion), NPR, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Hostos Review (CUNY) and Tupelo Quarterly, Women's Review of Books, Distrópika, among many others. She edited the anthology Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness (University of Florida Press, 2021), a gold medalist for collective fiction in the Latino International Book Awards 2022. Anjanette holds a BA in communications from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus and an MA in creative writing from Florida International University. (www.anjanettedelgado.com)