EDWARD L. ALBAN. POET. WRITER. LOVER OF WORDS.

Filigrees of language… like seedlings on the furrows of a field / that blossom into gardens / on the expanses of the soul. —Edward Alban

Edward L. Alban (Eddie to friends and colleagues) was born in Ecuador in 1938. He settled in Savannah, Georgia in 1952, and married his wife JoAnn in 1965. They raised two children together. A professor of Economics, he has taught at Auburn University, SUNY Potsdam, Armstrong State University and Savannah State University. He retired in 2000 and has been writing poetry and fiction ever since.

In his retirement, he and JoAnn have traveled throughout Europe and South America, pursuing his new avocation for languages and literature and publishing poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

His latest book, Stories That Words Told Me, is forthcoming from Alban Books this year (2025). Stories That Words Told Me is a fanciful, literary exploration of words and story and is part nonfiction and part imagined.

Books that have recently been released from Alban Books: Stealing Forbidden Dreams, an epic novel of literary fiction (2023), The Lost Third, poetry (2024) and This Life is So Brief, Between Eternities, poetry (2024).