Stanley Delgado

Stanley Delgado is a graduate of New York University’s MFA program, where he was a teaching artist at Teachers & Writers Collaborative. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in One Story, Glimmer Train, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, and The Los Angeles Review. His work has been widely recognized, including selection as a Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2024 for “Camera Man,” which follows a grieving cameraman as he travels through different neighborhoods of Los Angeles, filming sensational tales for a Spanish-language television show. Delgado’s work “Bicho, Bicha” (2019) won first place in Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award, and “Mexican Shoots Himself in the Chest” received the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Award for flash fiction. He was awarded the Anthony Veasna So Scholarship for Fiction from Adroit Journal.

Delgado is a 2023 Literary Arts Fellow in the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program at Montalvo Arts Center. He currently lives in Los Angeles, and teaches at Charles R. Drew University in Watts.