Francis DiClemente is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker with a disability who lives in Syracuse, New York. He is the author of numerous poetry collections and the memoir, Stunted: A Memoir of Delayed Manhood (Toplight Books, an imprint of McFarland & Company, 2026)

His writing has also appeared in Chaotic Merge Magazine, Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly (SFWP Quarterly), Evening Street Review, Bewildering Stories, Narratively, The Millions, Artnet News, and Film International. His full-length stage play, Beyond the Glass, inspired by the Edward Hopper painting Nighthawks, was produced by the Las Vegas Little Theatre in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2017. Some of his short plays have received staged readings presented by Armory Square Playwrights in Syracuse.

He received a bachelor’s degree in communications/journalism from St. John Fisher University in Rochester, New York, and earned a master of arts in film and video from American University in Washington, DC. He is employed as a senior producer in the Division of Marketing at Syracuse University. His blog can be found at francisdiclemente.com.