David Crouse (born 1971 in
Boston, Massachusetts) is a short story writer and teacher. Crouse's work explores issues of identity and alienation, and his stories are populated with characters living on the fringes of American society. The
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor.
Established in 1983 to encourage young writers by bringi ...
was awarded to him in 2005 for his first collection of short stories, ''
Copy Cats''.
Published in 2008, his most recent collection of stories, ''
The Man Back There'', was awarded the
Mary McCarthy Prize
Sarabande Books is an American not-for-profit literary press founded in 1994. It is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, with an office in New York City. Sarabande publishes contemporary poetry and nonfiction. Sarabande is a literary press whos ...
.
He has been published extensively in the
literary journal
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters ...
circuit, with stories appearing in
The Greensboro Review
''The Greensboro Review'', founded in 1966, is one of the nation's oldest literary magazines, based at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Greensboro, North Carolina. It publishes fiction and poetry on a semi-annual basis. Work f ...
,
Chelsea, Quarterly West, and The Beloit Fiction Journal. With a collection of three novellas entitled ''Continuity'' nearing completion, he has begun work on his first novel.
Having helped to establish a creative writing program at
Chester College of New England
Chester College of New England was a bachelor's degree-granting college that provided a foundation in the liberal arts and the fine arts, complemented by majors in the professional arts. It opened in 1965 as White Pines College and closed at the ...
, a renowned liberal arts college located in
Chester, New Hampshire, Crouse returned to the
University of Alaska Fairbanks, which awarded him his
MFA in
Creative Writing in 1996. He continues to teach creative writing at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
He has written in the comic book genre, with his work appearing in ''The Darkhorse Book of the Dead'', (Darkhorse Comics).
Books by David Crouse
Copy Cats (2005)
The Man Back There (2008)
References
External links
David Crouse official site''University of Alaska Fairbanks'' English Department’s official site''University of Washington'' English Department's official site
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1971 births
Writers from Boston
American short story writers
University of Alaska Fairbanks alumni
Living people