About
Stanley Delgado is a graduate of Cerritos College, California State University Long Beach, and New York University's MFA program, where he was awarded the Writers in Public Schools Fellowship.
He is currently a Literary Fellow at Montalvo's Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program, and a 2026 Emerging Artist through the California Arts Council Artist Fellowship program administered by Los Angeles Performance Practice for Los Angeles County. He was awarded the 2026 Anthony Veasno So Scholarship in Fiction by the Adroit Journal.
His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, The Los Angeles Review, Paper Darts, Sierra Nevada Review, RipRap Journal, Mud Season Review, and the Santa Ana River Review.
He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Published Works
Fiction:
"Honesty" in Story Quarterly
"Camera Man" in One Story
"Cactus Eater" in Kenyon Review
"Bugs 1 - 8" in Puerto del Sol
"Bicho, Bicha" in Glimmer Train
"Gossip, with Headless Body" in Gulf Coast
"Leda and Other Birds" in Sierra Nevada Review; reprinted in fresh.ink
"Pool" in Mud Season Review
"Mexican Shoots Himself in the Chest" in The Los Angeles Review
Poetry:
"Wilde Posing as a Somdomite" in RipRap Journal
"diaspora dream 2" in Pa'lante
Honors
Los Angeles County Emerging Artist Fellowship - California Arts Council & Los Angeles Performance Practice (2026-2027)
1st Place - Story Quarterly's 2026 Fiction Contest (2026)
Anthony Veasno So Scholarship in Fiction - the Adroit Journal (2026)
Literary Arts Fellow - Montalvo Arts Center's Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program Fellowship (2023-current)
Distinguished Story for "Camera Man" - Best American Short Stories 2024
Finalist - Cincinnati Review's Robert and Adele Schiff Award
Longlist - Disquiet Prize in Fiction (2025)
Honorable Mention - Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition
Runner Up - Kenyon Review's Short Fiction Contest (2020)
Puerto del Sol's Best of the Net (2020)
1st Place - Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Award (2019)
1st Place - The Los Angeles Review's Flash Fiction Award (2019)
Honorable Mention - Gulf Coast's Donald Barthelme Prize in Short Prose (2019)
Finalist - Puerto del Sol's Poetry & Prose Contest (2019)
Pushcart Prize nomination - "Pool" (2019)
Pushcart Prize nomination - "Bicho, Bicha" (2019)