Corey S. Pressman

Corey S. Pressman is a writer, artist, and teacher living in Portland, Oregon. He has published poetry, academic works, and short stories. Corey earned an MA in Anthropology from Washington State University; the Anthropological perspective infuses all his work. He is a Fellow of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he sometimes teaches about science fiction prototyping and participates as an artist in grant-funded prototyping endeavors. His story Divided Light, which appears in ASU’s 2019 collection The Weight of Light, is used in college courses about solar futures and climate change. As Director of the Lifefinding Program at the Wayfinding Academy, Corey works with individuals and organizations to enable purposeful decision-making. He also regularly teaches cooking. Three Burgers, a story about food and memory, will be his first food-oriented story to appear in print. This will be published in Gastronomica in Summer of 2020.