Damian Dressick

Damian Dressick (born 1968) is an American author from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Damian Dressick
Born	1968 (age 56–57)
Nationality	American
Education	University of Pittsburgh (MFA) University of Southern Mississippi (PhD)
Genres	novelist, short story writer

Career

Dressick is the author of the novel 40 Patchtown (Bottom Dog Press, 2020),[1] and the story collection Fables of the Deconstruction (forthcoming in 2020 from CLASH Books). His story “Four Hard Facts about Water” appeared in New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, an anthology published by W. W. Norton in 2019.[2]

Dressick’s fiction work has also appeared in many literary journals, including the New Delta Review,[3] McSweeneys,[4] Alimentum,[5] failbetter,[6] Post Road, HeartWood Literary Journal,[7] New Orleans Review,[8] CutBank,[9] Hot Metal Bridge,[10] Weave,[11] New World Writing,[12] SmokeLong Quarterly,[13] Barcelona Review,[14] and Hobart.[15] He has published essays in Hippocampus Magazine[16] and Connotation Press.[17]

Dressick currently teaches writing at Clarion University, where he helps curate Clarion's Visiting Writers Series. He has also taught writing at the University of Pittsburgh, Robert Morris University, and Pennsylvania State University. He designed and taught “Writing the 1000 Word (or less) Story” at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. He was a residency fellow at the Blue Mountain Center and the Orchard Keeper Writers Residency Program. He serves as fiction editor for the Northern Appalachia Review Archived 2020-02-06 at the Wayback Machine, and was a founding curator of Pittsburgh’s UPWords Reading Series.

Education

Dressick earned an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh, and holds a PhD in English from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, with concentrations in Creative Writing, Contemporary Literature and Postcolonial Literature.

Awards

In 2008[18] and 2009[19] Dressick was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for short fiction. He is the winner of the Spire Press 2009 Prose Chapbook Contest for his collection Fables of the Deconstruction. In 2007 he won the Harriette Arnow Award for short fiction. In 2018 he won the Jesse Stuart Prize and was a Finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction.[20]

References

1. "Bottom Dog Press, Inc. - Appalachian Writing Page". smithdocs.net. Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
2. "New Micro". wwnorton.com. Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
3. http://www.lsu.edu/newdeltareview/New_Delta_Review/SUBSCRIBE.html Archived 2010-01-25 at the Wayback Machine New Delta Review, Winter 2009
4. http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2007/4/10dressick.html Archived 2009-10-03 at the Wayback Machine McSweeney's Internet Tendency, April 2007
5. http://www.alimentumjournal.com/issue8/ Archived 2009-11-23 at the Wayback Machine Alimentum, Summer 2009
6. http://failbetter.com/27/DressickJesus.php?src=rss&docheck=yes Archived 2010-04-17 at the Wayback Machine failbetter.com, June 2008
7. "Bob in the Crosshairs". HeartWood. Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
8. "Gdansk". www.neworleansreview.org. Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
9. "WEEKLY FLASH PROSE AND PROSE POETRY: "Freak" by Damian Dressick". CutBank Literary Magazine. 13 May 2019. Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
10. "Worship, Kinship, Imitation, Flattery". HMB. 2011-03-31. Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
11. Magazine, Weave. "Weave Magazine Issue 02 Contributor List". Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
12. "Damian Dressick". NEW WORLD WRITING. 2011-07-19. Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
13. "Life Lesson | SmokeLong Quarterly". Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
14. "Damian Dressick: Losing the Light". www.barcelonareview.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-10. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
15. "Hobart :: In The Land Between The Valley And The Hills, What Men Said, They Meant". www.hobartpulp.com. Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
16. "Summer, 1987: Windber—A Place You Can't Leave By Moving by Damian Dressick | Hippocampus Magazine - Memorable Creative Nonfiction". 2018-04-02. Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
17. "Damian Dressick - Creative Nonfiction". ConnotationPress.com. Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
18. "Search". vestalreview.net. Archived from the original on 2020-02-09. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
19. http://www.gargoylemagazine.com/gargoyle.php Archived 2008-08-07 at the Wayback Machine Gargoyle Magazine Pushcart Prize nomination
20. Prize, K. A. Porter (2019-01-28). "Also Huge congratulations to our 9 other finalists!pic.twitter.com/3OPpekUib0". @KAPorterPrize. Archived from the original on 2021-07-18. Retrieved 2020-02-06.