Peter Oresick (pronounced o-RES-ik) is a poet, publisher, and professor.
Currently he is Associate Professor of English at Chatham University, where teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing Program and edits the literary journal The Fourth River . He has also taught at the The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, Emerson College, and the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.
As a publisher he served in senior positions in literary, scholarly, and technical publishing from 1981 to 2004 at the University of Pittsburgh Press, Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, and Printing Industries of America.
At the University of Pittsburgh Oresick earned a BA in Education and a MFA in Poetry.
i bough this randomly a couple of weeks ago at half priced books and it turns out the author was actually from pittsburgh and used to be a professor at pitt,, so cool,,,, lots of fun local references,,, awesome poetry !!! i enjoyed this !!!