Juli Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer based in San Francisco. In addition to their latest novel, Fiebre Tropical, they’re the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017), an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants that won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. Juli’s received awarded fellowships and residencies from Hedgebrook, Headlands Center for the Arts, Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the SF Grotto. Their work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Teen Vogue, the Rumpus, the White Review, LALT, Four Way Review, Broadly, and TimeOut to name a few. They are the former executive director of RADAR Productions, a queer literary nonprofit in San Francisco.

Author photo: Rebeka Rodriguez