Damian Dressick
Damian Dressick (born 1968) is an American author from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He earned an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied with Lewis Nordan and Chuck Kinder. He is the founding curator of Pittsburgh's UPWords Reading series and serves on the advisory board for the nationally distributed journal Epiphany.[1] He teaches creative writing and literature at Robert Morris University.
Damian Dressick was nominated[2] in 2007 for the 33rd Pushcart Prize for short fiction. He has written a collection of short stories and recently completed his first novel, a coming-of-age story set during Pennsylvania's 1922 coal strike.
Footnotes
- ^ http://www.epiphanyzine.com/about.html/ Epiphany advisory board
- ^ http://www.vestalreview.net/news.html/ Vestal Review 33rd Pushcart Prize nomination