Delano Burrowes is a Brooklyn-based writer and multidisciplinary artist. His writing has appeared in The Rumpus, HuffPost, Quarto, and other publications. He was the 2023 W.E.B. Du Bois Lecturer at Simon’s Rock Bard College and a 2024 Brooklyn Academy of Music Artist in Residence.

Delano has worked as a racial justice coordinator with the nonprofit MULTICULTURAL BRIDGE and as a writing tutor with the Bard Prison Initiative. He has studied and taught mindfulness meditation for over twelve years and is deeply committed to making meditation more accessible to historically excluded communities. 

He is currently an African American Studies student at Columbia University.