Edward J. Delaney is an award-winning author, journalist, filmmaker, and educator whose previous works of fiction include The Acrobat, The Big Impossible, Follow the Sun, and Broken Irish, published by Turtle Point Press. He is the recipient of a PEN/New England Award for Fiction, an O. Henry Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. He lives in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Praise for HARD MARGINS“In the West, as in Faulkner’s South, the past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past. Edward J. Delaney’s gripping new novel captures the dashed hopes and stifled ambitions that are too often avoided in telling the story of Manifest Destiny. Hard Margins is an achievement, as starkly beautiful as the landscape it describes.”—David Wright Faladé, author of The New Internationals and Black Cloud Rising“Taut and atmospheric, Hard Margins is a gripping read about people pushed to their limits—and sometimes beyond. It kept me up all night. This fine a novel all too rarely comes along.”—Steve Yarbrough, author of Stay Gone Days“In this remarkable novel, we have the rare opportunity of reading about the modern-day West as it really is: the discovery of oil on the tribe's land is ‘the complicated windfall of a dying tribe,’ producing a toxic dependency like the per capita checks the agent gives out every month. And yet there is hope . . . even in the agent’s final realization that ‘his fate is now only in seeing this through.’” —Sallie Bingham, author of Taken by the Shawnee“I’ve long been a fan of Edward J. Delaney’s writing. He’s adept at writing thoughtful, fully rendered characters who seem true-to-life. . . . Though billed as a novel, it would perhaps be more accurate to describe Hard Margins as two closely related novellas that are in dialogue with one another. . . .  The juxtaposition of the two stories drives home that the futility of Hubbard’s endeavor, the malaise that hangs over the Towuks, and the vitriol of the Suncreek community, was all foreordained in Dorrance’s time. Our present is bound by fetters woven deep in the past, ones that we are blithely unaware of even as we struggle against them.”—Michael Patrick Brady, SubstackPraise for Edward J. Delaney"A masterpiece." —Library Journal (starred review)"Beautifully and heartbreakingly balanced." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"[Delaney] demonstrates great dexterity and storytelling acumen in his lyrical page-turner." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Muscular and taut. . . . A great story that reaches into a reader's life [and] poses important questions about people, fate and community." —Shelf Awareness “[Delaney] understands the importance [of details] to the larger themes of loss, desperation, and betrayed loyalties. His characters are . . . fully realized, familiar people, whose failures are heartbreakingly authentic.” —The Boston Globe"Edward J. Delaney is an enormously gifted writer." —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Late City"If you're anything like me, you Will. Not. Be. Able. To. Stop. Reading." —David Abrams, author of Brave Deeds