DAVID CROUSE is the author of Copy Cats, which received the 2004 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and The Man Back There, which received the Mary McCarthy Fiction Prize in 2008. His new collection of novellas is Trouble Will Save You (2021). David is full professor of English at the University of Washington and also serves as the Director of the MFA Program. David's stories have appeared in such publications as the Massachusetts Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Chelsea, and Quarterly West.
