Edward Schwarzschild is the author of three works of fiction—In Security, The Family Diamond, and Responsible Men. His new book, Job/Security, is a documentary collaboration with the photographer Danny Goodwin.

Schwarzschild has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, a NYFA Fellow in Fiction, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, a Fiction Meets Science Writer-in-Residence at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, Germany, and, most recently, a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.

His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Guardian, The Believer, The Washington Post, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Journal of Criticism, and elsewhere.

Schwarzschild’s interest in reading and writing about the American security industry began when he worked for a few months as a Transportation Security Officer-in-training at Albany International Airport. His essay about the experience first appeared at Hazlitt.net and was then published in The Guardian.

Schwarzschild is currently Professor or English, Director of Creative Writing, and Fellow of the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany, SUNY.