Edward J. Carvalho is an MFA recipient (Goddard College 2006), and ABD in the Literature and Criticism program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short (Fine Tooth Press, 2007), Chants from the Seven Cities (Guerrilla Ignition, 2009), and the forthcoming manuscript “If the radiance of a thousand suns”: Songs of the American Hiroshima (2011). His poems––once described as “original, innovative, imaginative and brutal”––have been twice-nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2004-2005) and appear along with his essays, reviews, and critical papers in numerous journals throughout the country. He is also co-editor with David B. Downing of Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era (Palgrave 2010) and the guest editor for David B. Downing's Works and Days journal on Academic Freedom and Intellectual Activism in the Post-9/11 University, which was the subject of considerable national press in three of Stanley Fish's New York Times "Think Again" Blogs. The volume includes his interviews with Noam Chomsky, Martín Espada, and Cornel West and features scholarship from several other notable intellectuals. Additionally, he is the recent recipient of Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Twentieth and Twenty-First Annual IUP Doctoral Fellowships (2006, 2008), a 2010 IUP Professional Development Grant, and employed there with a temporary faculty position in the English Department (Spring 2011).

For more information, please see Mitch James's interview with Edward J. Carvalho published by Quay.

James,Mitch. "Lineage, Boundaries and Form in "If the radiance of a thousand suns": Songs of the American Hiroshima." Interview with Edward J. Carvalho. Quay 3.1 (Spring 2009). Interview conducted in 2008.