Since 1972 he and his wife Britt Horner have lived on a small farm in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
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Ochester is a founding editor of the poetry magazine 5 AM.
It was the first U.K. magazine to publish American poets and writers, such as Sheila E. Murphy, Gerald Locklin, Ed Ochester, Donna Hilbert, Fred Voss, as well as regularly publishing Edward Field and Paul Violi.