Edward J. Delaney (born 1957) is an

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. Delaney is the author of six books of fiction, the novels Warp & Weft (2004), Broken Irish (2011), Follow The Sun (2018) and The Acrobat (2022), and the short-story collections The Drowning and Other Stories (1999) and The Big Impossible: Novellas + Stories (2019). He was awarded the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award for Warp & Weft; Broken Irish received the Grand Prize at the New England Book Festival. His short story ‘The Drowning’ appeared in ''

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'' and was included in both the Prize Stories: The O. Henry AwardsThe O. Henry Prize Stories: Past Winners List
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. He has been a faculty member at

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, since 1990, where he is currently a professor of Creative Writing. He is the editor of the literary journal ''Mount Hope''. He received a 2008 Literary Fellowship from the

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. He has published numerous short stories in ''The Atlantic Monthly'' and other literary magazines and quarterlies. Delaney was a reporter for ''

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'' and a columnist for ''The Gazette'' of

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, and also wrote for the ''

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''. In 2009, Delaney co-authored ''Born to Play'' by

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of the

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. He has written for PBS's POV Docs website and for the

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. Delaney received a B.S. in finance from Fairfield University in 1979 and an M.S. in mass communications from

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in 1982.

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