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.
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.
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.
He is the winner of the Spire Press 2009 Prose Chapbook Contest for his collection Fables of the Deconstruction.