Damian Dressick

Who is Damian Dressick?

Damian Dressick is an American author from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was nominated in 2009 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.

He earned an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh. His work has appeared in various literary journals like the New Delta Review, McSweeneys, Alimentum and failbetter. He is the founding curator of Pittsburgh's Union Project's UPWords Reading series. He has taught creative writing at Robert Morris University and Pennsylvania State University. He currently teaches writing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.