Ed Ochester is the author of eight published collections of poetry, most recent of which are Weehawken Ferry (Juniper Press, 1985) and Changing the Name to Ochester (forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon). Ochester is the recipient of fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In 1973 he received the Devins Award for poetry. He edits the University of Pittsburgh Press Poetry Series, and since its inception has served as coordinator of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction.

Mr. Ochester will speak on small vs. large press editing on Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. He will read with Ellen Bryant Voigt on Wednesday afternoon at 12:30 p.m. [extracted from 1986 brochure]

9th Annual Literary Festival