Winner of the 2009 Spire Press Prose Chapbook Contest for his manuscript FABLES OF THE DECONSTRUCTION, Damian Dressick's stories have appeared in nearly forty literary journals, including failbetter.com, New Delta Review, McSweeney's (online), Caketrain and Alimentum.

Having finished a stint of teaching creative writing at Pennsylvania State University, Damian is currently waist deep in the PhD program in creative writing at the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. He can be found online at www.damiandressick.com.