BIO
Edward J. Delaney is an author, journalist, filmmaker and educator.
He has been a recipient of a 2008 Literary Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a winner of the 2005 PEN/Winship Award for Fiction. His work has been anthologized in Prize Stories: The O.Henry Awards and in Best American Short Stories. As a journalist he is a past winner of the National Education Reporting Award, and well as other national and regional awards.
He has published three books of fiction. "Warp & Weft" and "The Drowning and Other Stories" appeared in 1999 and 2004. "Broken Irish" was published in Fall 2011 by Turtle Point Press. Delaney has published short stories in The Atlantic and other magazines and quarterlies. He was also the co-author of "Born to Play," by Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia (Simon & Schuster 2009).
Delaney has directed and produced two documentary films. "The Times Were Never So Bad: The Life of Andre Dubus," premiered in 2007. It received a first place at The Rhode Island International Film Festival. "Library of the Early Mind" debuted at Harvard University's Askwith Forums in October 2010 and has screened at universities, libraries and museums nationally.
He was born in Fall River, Mass, and attended Fairfield University (B.S. Finance, 1979), and Boston University (M.S. Mass Communication, 1982)
Delaney was a staff writer at The Denver Post and at the Colorado Springs Gazette, and has been a contributing writer for The Chicago Tribune Magazine and The Providence Journal Magazine, as well as The Atlantic Monthly and other magazines.
Delaney was an Assistant Editor of The Nieman Journalism Lab, at The Nieman Foundation, Harvard University, in 2008/2009. He has been at Roger Williams University, where he is a Professor of Communications and Creative Writing, since 1990. He has also taught at The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and Colorado State University, where he was the Gannett Foundation Professional-in-Residence.