BIO
Full Moon over First Beach, Newport, R.I. 2007
Edward J. Delaney is an author, journalist, filmmaker and educator.
He is a recipient of a 2008 Literary Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a winner of the 2005 PEN/Winship Award for Fiction, and a past winner of an O.Henry Prize for short story writing. As a journalist he is a past winner of the National Education Reporting Award, and well as other national and regional awards.
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.
He has published two books of fiction, "Warp & Weft" and "The Drowning and Other Stories," and has published short stories in The Atlantic and other magazines and quarterlies. He was the co-author of "Born to Play," by Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia.
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" debutss at Harvard University's Askwith Forums in October 2010.