Please join the URI English Department in welcoming Edward Delaney for a reading of his works. 

Edward Delaney was a 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellow, winner of the 2005 PEN/Winship Award for Fiction, a National Magazine Award finalist, and a past recipient 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.