Diana Marie Delgado

Diana Marie Delgado is the Executive Director of Hugo House and has more than twenty years of experience working in not-for-profits focused on advancing social justice and the arts. Her first collection, Tracing the Horse, was a New York Times Noteworthy Pick. Her chapbook, Late-Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust, was the 2018 Center for Book Arts winner and she has published poetry in Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, New York Times Magazine, Colorado Review, and Tin House. Delgado received her bachelor’s degree at UC Riverside and her MFA at Columbia University. Her selected honors and awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Hedgebrook, Breadloaf, and the James D. Phelan Foundation. She is a member of the CantoMundo and Macondo writing communities.