Julián Delgado Lopera

Julián Delgado Lopera was born in Bogotá, Colombia and immigrated with their family to the United States in 2003 when they were fifteen years old. They first moved to Miami, Florida, then relocated to the Bay Area to find their queer home. Delgado Lopera attended the University of California Berkeley where they earned a Bachelor's degree in Women and Gender Studies in 2011. They continued their education at San Francisco State University and graduated with a Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in 2015. ==Notable works==

Delgado Lopera has been published by Four Way Review, The Bold Italic, Weird Sister, Revista Canto, Transfer Magazine, Raspa Magazine, Black Girl Dangerous, and SF Weekly. They then received two creative writing awards from Galería de la Raza and the Queer Cultural Center, ¡Cuéntamelo! is credited with bringing histories of identity intersection like queer, immigration status, gender and age to light. Quiéreme (2017) Quiéreme (like me or love me) was published in March 2017. Quiéreme is a collection of essays documenting the experience of longing for love. Delgado Lopera plays with language in Quiéreme to create a mixed combination of English and Spanish into "Spanglish" as a form of bilingual literature. Fiebre Tropical (2020) Delgado Lopera's first novel debuted in March 2020 to positive critical reception. It was a finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Fiction, and in 2021, won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. ==Activism==

Radar Productions Julián Delgado Lopera became the Executive/ Artistic director role of the Nonprofit organization Radar Productions in 2015. Radar Productions is based in San Francisco and organizes queer literature performances around the Bay Area that are open freely to the public. "Noche de Ambiente" offered a glimpse into the life of LGBT Latino identities in San Francisco from the 1970s to the 1990s. Delgado Lopera collaborated in the exhibition to use art as a tool to educate the public about queer Latino History in the Bay Area, particularly in San Francisco. They recognize the importance of making room for multi-national and inter-generational queer Latino History and the need to extend the term Latinidad in the U.S. ==Performance==

Sister Spit A performer of Sister Spit, a feminist, queer, comedic poetry roadshow, Delgado Lopera travels around the country. Sister Spit emerged during the 1990s as a weekly open-mic poetry slam retaliation against the wave of misogynistic poetry prominent around the San Francisco area at the time. Sister Spit now tours yearly after experiencing a revival as "Sister Spit: the next generation" in 2007. They were invited to participate in 2016 and continues to tour alongside Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Cathy de la Cruz, Celeste Chan, Virgie Tovar, Maya Songbird, and Denise Benavides. Other locations Delgado Lopera has performed in various venues throughout the Bay Area and across the US. including Action Fiction!, Red Light Lit, Beast Crawl, Lit Quake, and has lectured at Wayward Writers. ==Awards and honors==

The San Francisco Foundation named Delgado Lopera the winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in 2014. They also received an award from the Regen Ginaa Artist Fund from Galería de la Raza in 2013 and the National Queer Arts Festival Grant from the Queer Cultural Center in 2014. ==See also==