Damian Dressick

Two-time Pushcart nominee, Damian Dressick’s stories have appeared in more forty literary journals, including failbetter.com, New Delta Review, McSweeney’s (online), Caketrain, Vestal Review and Alimentum. Currently a PhD. candidate at the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, Damian can be found online at www.damiandressick.com.

Winner of the Spire Prose Chapbook Award

Fables of the Deconstruction
(c)2010, Damian Dressick
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"Fables of the Deconstruction is funny, sad, dreamy, and brutal. The stories here veer off in strange directions, happily disobedient to the conventions that plague so much of our current grindingly cautious literature. This is a credit to Damian Dressick, an excitable and exciting young writer who will probably be a big deal someday and, in fact, if you check your heart, already is." - Steve Almond

"Damian Dressick writes with gusto and sly humor, and Fables of the Deconstruction introduces a bold and robust new voice of impressive range. A heady debut. " - Gary Lutz

"Fables of the Deconstruction is an impressive debut. Dressick's mini-fictions are innovative, sharply etched, resonant, intense, hilariously metafictive at times, and memorably odd. In them we find talking dogs, a speed-addicted bear working night shift, Christ back on earth at work in a coal mine, a man bathing in the blood of raw meat. This is a daring gathering of stories."
- Kirk Nesset, author of Paradise Road (winner of the Drue Heinz Prize)

“There is enough energy in the prose of Fables of the Deconstruction to light up several good-sized cities. Instead Damian Dressick has decided to light up the darkest reaches of the human heart. Read this fine little book!” - Lewis Nordan, winner of the Southern Book Award

"In a world where writing is often mere imitation, or too crafted for its own good, Damian Dressick's stories stand out for all the right reasons. They're oddities that are not odd for the sake of strangeness, but truly original and demonstrable of the belief that there many stories are still left to be told. Dressick hasn't merely provided readers with tales in any traditional sense, but has given us some original fables for our own brave new world." - Thom Didato, editor of failbetter.com

"Damian Dressick’s Fables of the Deconstruction expertly explores the question: why not? Wandering through Dressick’s terrain, you can leave your own (real) life behind for a white. Sit back and enjoy. This little book will make you both happy and sad—with footnotes."
- Sherrie Flick author of I Call This Flirting and Reconsidering Happiness.