Waist deep in the PhD program at the Center for Writers, Damian Dressick lives, writes, writes and writes in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. His work has appeared or is upcoming in nearly forty literary journals including:  failbetter.com, New Delta Review, Alimentum, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Vestal Review, Caketrain, Dos Passos Review and Contrary Magazine.

Damian's story "Accrual", which appears in the current issue of Gargoyle Magazine, was recently nominated for the 34th Pushcart Prize. His manuscript, Fables of the Deconstruction, won the Spire Press 2009 Prose Chapbook Contest and will be published by Spire this spring.

Damian has written extensively about Pennsylvania's coal country, including a historical novel and "Home Brew," a short story anthologized in Main Street Rag's Dots on a Map, Stories from Small Town America.