David Jauss
DAVID JAUSS, fiction writer and poet, is the author of two collections of short stories, Black Maps (Univ. of Mass. Press,’96), winner of the AWP Award in Short Fiction, and Crimes of Passion (Story Press, ‘94); two collections of poems, You Are Not Here (Fleur-de-Lis Press, 2002), winner of the Fleur-de-Lis Poetry Prize, and Improvising Rivers (Cleveland State Univ. Press, '95), runner-up for the Cleveland State Univ. Press Poetry Prize; a collection of essays on the craft of fiction, Alone With All That Could Happen (Writer’s Digest Books, ‘08); and a monograph on closure in literature and the arts, “A Crack in Everything”: How We Know What’s Done Is Done (Haystack Mountain, ‘09). He has also co-edited, with Philip Dacey, Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms (HarperCollins, ’86; Longman, ’04) and edited The Best of Crazyhorse (Univ. of Arkansas Press, ‘90), a collection of poems and stories from the first three decades of that highly regarded literary journal, and Words Overflown by Stars (Writer’s Digest Books, ’09), a collection of essays on the craft of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by VCFA's MFA in Writing faculty. His short stories have been included in the Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize, and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and in The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Stories from a Quarter-Century of the Pushcart Prize. David is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, three fellowships from the Arkansas Arts Council, and a James A. Michener fellowship. He teaches creative writing at the Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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