Edward J. Delaney

Edward J. Delaney is an award-winning author, journalist, filmmaker, playwright, and educator.

His books include the novels Broken Irish, Warp & Weft and Follow The Sun, and the short-story collection The Drowning and Other Stories. His new collection, The Big Impossible: Novellas+Stories, will be published in September 2019

by Turtle Point Press.

He was a 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellow, winner of the 2005 PEN/Winship Award for Fiction for New England book of the year, winner of the Grand Prize at the 2012 New England Book Fair, and a past winner of an O. Henry Prize for short story writing.

His work has appeared regularly in The Atlantic and other magazines, and has appeared in Best American Short Stories. He is also the co-author of Born to Play, by Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia.

Delaney is a faculty member at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, where he edits the literary journal Mount Hope.