David Jauss is the author of two short story collections, Crimes of Passion and Black Maps, and two collections of poetry, Improvising Rivers and You Are Not Here, and he has edited The Best of Crazyhorse: Thirty Years of Poetry and Prose and co-edited (with Philip Dacey) Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms. His stories have been reprinted in Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Award and Pushcart Prize anthologies. His awards include the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction, the Fleur-de-Lis Poetry Prize, a James Michener Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship. He teaches at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.