Francisco Delgado is a Chamoru writer of fiction and poetry, as well as of literary scholarship on contemporary Indigenous literatures. His novella, On Remembering My Friends, My First Job, and My Second-Favorite Weezer CD (Texas Review Press, July 2025), won the 2024 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize. Other creative work has recently appeared in MANOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, Poets of Queens, vol. 2, and JMWW. He teaches at Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY and lives in Forest Hills with his wife and their son.

