Nicole Cecilia Delgado (www.nicolececiliadelgado.net) is a poet, translator, and book artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her writing, often reviewed within the framework of ecofeminism and land art, explores the subtleties and contrasts of everyday Puerto Rican and Caribbean life. Her collection of poems Periodo especial (Ediciones Aguadulce & La Impresora, 2019), deals with the fiscal crisis in Puerto Rico through the socioeconomic mirrors of the Greater Antilles. She recently published A mano/By Hand, an autobiographical essay about independent publishing (Ugly Duckling Presse Pamphlet Series 2020, La Impresora/EEE, 2023), and the bilingual poetry anthology Adjacent Islands/islas adyacentes (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022, translated to English by Urayoán Noel). She is the founder and co-director of La Impresora, a poetry press and Risograph print shop dedicated to small-scale publishing work in Puerto Rico. She was awarded a Letras Boricuas Fellowship in 2025.
Contemporary Latin American Environmental Poetry