Damian Dressick

Damian Dressick (born 1968) is an American author from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was nominated^[1] in 2009 for the Pushcart Prize for short fiction. He is the winner^[2] of the Spire Press 2009 Prose Chapbook Contest for his collection Fables of the Deconstruction. In 2007 he won^[3] the Harriette Arnow Award for short fiction.

He earned an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh. His work has appeared^[4][5][6][7] 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.

Bibliography

Story Collections

• Fables of the Deconstruction, Spire Press, 2011.

References

1. ^ http://www.gargoylemagazine.com/gargoyle.php Gargoyle Magazine Pushcart Prize nomination
2. ^ http://www.spirepress.org/dressick Spire Press 2009 Special Prose Chapbook Contest Announcement
3. ^ http://www.morehead-st.edu/appwriters/index.aspx?id=24740 2007 Harriette Arnow Award for Short Story
4. ^ http://www.lsu.edu/newdeltareview/New_Delta_Review/SUBSCRIBE.html New Delta Review, Winter 2009
5. ^ http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2007/4/10dressick.html McSweeney's Internet Tendency, April 2007
6. ^ http://www.alimentumjournal.com/issue8/ Alimentum, Summer 2009
7. ^ http://failbetter.com/27/DressickJesus.php?src=rss&docheck=yes failbetter.com, June 2008

External links

• Damian Dressick
• The Pushcart Prize

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