Peter Oresick

Who is Peter Oresick?

Peter Oresick is an American poet.

He is best known as the editor of Working Classics, a landmark literary anthology of working-class poetry, and 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. In 2010 he became editor-in-chief of the literary magazine The Fourth River.

Oresick earned his B.A. and M.F.A. at the University of Pittsburgh. He taught at Emerson College, The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, Chatham University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.

He lives in Pittsburgh.