Anjanette Delgado (Santurce, Puerto Rico) writes about sexile, heartbreak, and displacement. She is the Emmy award-winning author of two novels: The Heartbreak Pill (Atria, 2008) and The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho (Penguin Random House, 2014), and  has written poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for the New York Times (Modern Love; Opinion), Vogue, NPR, HBO, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, Tupelo Quarterly, Pleiades Mag, and the Boston Review, among others. 

Anjanette is 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 holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida International University and her latest book El sexilio, is a hybrid chapbook of protest poetry and non-fiction about the violence that ejects us and the influence of colonial and other oppressive structures on violence against the feminized. (LaCriba Editores, 2024). This artist's residency was curated as part of Gen '305' and The Betsy's Escribe Aqui, by MIami Dade Poet Laureate, Caridad Moro-Gronlier.