Novel Workshop
Anjanette Delgado was born in Puerto Rico and writes of sexile and displacement, of heartbreak and social justice.
The Emmy award-winning author of the novels The Heartbreak Pill and The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho, she has written poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for the New York Times “Modern Love” Column and opinion sections, Vogue, NPR, HBO, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, Tupelo Quarterly, Pleiades Mag, and the Boston Review, among many others.
Anjanette is also the editor of the groundbreaking anthology Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness (University of Florida Press, 2021), chosen by “Poets & Writers” as one of three notable anthologies that year, and a Gold Medal Winner for ensemble fiction at the Latino International Book Awards.
She is an alumnus of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and the Kenyon Review’s Writers Workshop, where she was a Peter Taylor Fellow in Fiction in 2017. She has taught creative writing at FIU and Miami Dade College, as well as in conferences such as Writers in Paradise (Eckerd College in Florida), and San Miguel de Allende Writer’s Conference (San Miguel de Allende in Mexico). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida International University and lives in Miami, Florida.
