Edwin Frank Ochester (September 15, 1939 – August 22, 2023) was an American poet and editor.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Ochester was also general editor of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction.
Poets published by Ochester in the Pitt Series include Sharon Olds, Billy Collins, Ted Kooser, Lawrence Joseph, Richard Shelton, Larry Levis, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Bob Hicok, Jim Daniels, Gary Soto, Stuart Dybek, Kathleen Norris, Alicia Ostriker, Toi Derricotte, Dean Young, and David Wojahn.
His book Dancing on the Edges of Knives won the 1973 Devins Award for Poetry, and he has won fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.