American writer
Damian Dressick (born 1968) is an American
author from
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .
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
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"Bottom Dog Press, Inc. - Appalachian Writing Page" . smithdocs.net .
Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06 .
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"New Micro" . wwnorton.com .
Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06 .
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http://www.lsu.edu/newdeltareview/New_Delta_Review/SUBSCRIBE.html
Archived 2010-01-25 at the
Wayback Machine New Delta Review , Winter 2009
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http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2007/4/10dressick.html
Archived 2009-10-03 at the
Wayback Machine McSweeney's Internet Tendency , April 2007
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http://www.alimentumjournal.com/issue8/
Archived 2009-11-23 at the
Wayback Machine Alimentum , Summer 2009
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http://failbetter.com/27/DressickJesus.php?src=rss&docheck=yes
Archived 2010-04-17 at the
Wayback Machine failbetter.com , June 2008
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"Bob in the Crosshairs" . HeartWood .
Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06 .
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"Gdansk" . www.neworleansreview.org .
Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06 .
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"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 .
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"Worship, Kinship, Imitation, Flattery" . HMB . 2011-03-31.
Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06 .
^ Magazine, Weave.
"Weave Magazine Issue 02 Contributor List" .
Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06 .
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"Damian Dressick" . NEW WORLD WRITING . 2011-07-19.
Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06 .
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"Life Lesson | SmokeLong Quarterly" .
Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06 .
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"Damian Dressick: Losing the Light" . www.barcelonareview.com .
Archived from the original on 2019-08-10. Retrieved 2020-02-06 .
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"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 .
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"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 .
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"Damian Dressick - Creative Nonfiction" . ConnotationPress.com .
Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06 .
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"Search" . vestalreview.net .
Archived from the original on 2020-02-09. Retrieved 2020-02-06 .
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http://www.gargoylemagazine.com/gargoyle.php
Archived 2008-08-07 at the
Wayback Machine Gargoyle Magazine Pushcart Prize nomination
^ 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 .