Francisco Delgado is a proud Chamoru and, through his maternal grandmother, Tonawanda Band of Seneca. His chapbook, Adolescence, Secondhand, was published by Honeysuckle Press in 2018. He teaches creative writing and multi-ethnic American literature courses at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY). He lives in Queens, New York, with his wife and their son.

“On Remembering My Friends is an honest and tender look at friendships, as well as romantic and parental relationships that question conventional ideas of masculinity. Delgado shows us how the largeness of small kindnesses can last for a long time. This book is a gift of hope. And we don’t see these stories often enough, from anyone, but especially from Chamorro people in the continental U.S.—as Delgado makes achingly clear—trying to connect here to a geographical and cultural homeland that has become abstract. This shit is great—it hits on a lot of levels of love—not just love between these characters, but also we can tell Delgado wrote these characters with love, which to me means he saw and wrote them as full humans with complicated spectrums of being in the world. That’s some gracious shit and I appreciate it. And the book is hilarious!”—Steven Dunn, contest judge and author of water & power