Edward Power

 Edward Power grew up on the southeast coast of Virginia where he became a surfer and racing sailor at a young age. After attending the University of Virginia where he studied writing, his surf travels took him to Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Australia and Fiji. For a year, he lived aboard a sixty foot ocean racing sailboat berthed in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and made two transits via Bermuda to Newport, Rhode Island.

    After attending Columbia University as a writing fellow, he began his reporting and writing career at The Virginian-Pilot and was later recruited as a staff writer by The Philadelphia Inquirer where he covered politics, labor unions, and many general news and feature assignments. As a military reporter, his assignments included a landing on an aircraft carrier to write about at-sea flight operations, and flying with a Blue Angel pilot over the Atlantic ocean where he was given control of an FA-18 Hornet jet.

     He has gone on patrol on the Philippine island of Mindanao with Philippine army special forces fighting guerillas in the jungle, written about the aftermath of an earthquake in El Salvador and about human rights abuses in that country. His profiles of people from all walks of life have included prominent politicians, civil rights activists, a rebel motorcycle mechanic, a tattoo artist, and a legendary tug boat captain on the Chesapeake Bay.

     In January 2016, Power and his wife, both avid skiers, moved from Virginia to the mountains of Northern Utah. They now divide their time between Utah and a home in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Power’s first book, Dragons In The Snow, is set to be published by Mountaineers Books in mid-September 2020. 

    More recent news about Power’s writing work can be found at www.edwardpowerwriter.com and on Facebook. He is currently at work on new projects, both in non-fiction and fiction.