Anjanette Delgado

Anjanette Delgado is a Puerto Rican writer and journalist based in Miami. She is the author of The Heartbreak Pill: A Novel and The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho. She has written for the New York Times “Modern Love” column, Vogue, NPR, HBO, the Kenyon Review, Pleiades, the Hong Kong Review, and others. Her latest book, Home in Florida, was released in November 2021.

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Congrats to my fellow honorable mention and to the winners of the 2022 Curt Johnson Prose Award. And immense thanks to “december: a literary legacy” and to judge Taté Walker for honoring “Of Cats and Men.” So happy it now has a great home from which to be shared with others.

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The Slowdown with @poetmajorjackson - subscribe, donate, don’t miss it. It’s a grand ride!
Happy New Year! Sharing this amazing novel I received yesterday and have not been able to put down. So lush and full of passion, and yet so clearheaded. So different from any novel you may have read about Cuba and those souls history chose for exile
Woke up to see that accomplished feminist poet, teacher and mentor #deniseduhamel posted one of my poems in the Best American Poetry blog (Jan. 4 post). So honored and happy. ❤️ (Poem first appeared in @swwimmiami)
One of the best presents I’ve ever received is this self portrait by the talented writer (and accomplished artist) Ana Menéndez @plant_based_cuban. I haven’t stopped looking at it since it arrived. It reminds me how lucky I am that
My short poem about my struggles with my weight, “suicide blouse” is the Poem of the Day on SWWIM Every Day. So grateful to the editors of @swwimmiami for choosing it! ❤️ (Link in bio)
Just got these beautiful issues of @thepuertoricoreview - can’t wait to read and to submit! 🙏🏽✊🏽🇨🇺❤️
Sunday night reading: The Faraway World by @patricia_engel. Stories of beauty, of love so strong it’s gut-punching, of loss, of distance and angst over one’s body, and of deep deep humanity. Not yet finished, but already know “Aida&
At @aguacate_sanctuaryoflove with my dear friend @imababysquid (who is so nice she even shooed away the roosters for me and kept from laughing when I was afraid of eeeeverything). Love you, Issy. 🥰
I am so so proud to be part of “Miami’s Favorite Poems” project, a vision of our amazing poet Richard Blanco. It’s happening this Saturday, the 19th, as part of the Miami Book Fair. So many of my heroes, so many poetry greats,
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Esta campaña hermosa llegó a mis manos anoche. La comparto para que puedan apoyarla en donadora punto org / dejemos-huella. ❤️
Llevo años esperando el estreno del nuevo libro de @soyfelixculpa - pueden conseguirlo en todas las librerías y también en el sitio de felixculpa (punto) me. Que lo disfruten.