David Crouse

David Crouse
Born	June 9, 1971(1971-06-09) Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation	Short story writer and Teacher

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 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.

He has been published extensively in the literary journal circuit, with stories appearing in The Greensboro Review, 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, 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.

Differentiating himself from other university-affiliated writers, his career has also been marked by an interest in the changing forms that contemporary storytelling takes. He has involved himself in several projects not traditionally considered literary. He has written in the comic book genre, with his work appearing in The Darkhorse Book of the Dead, (Darkhorse Comics). He remains committed to ideals of cross-artistic pollination both in his own writing and the works of his students at the University of Alaska Fairbanks creative writing program. He is an aficionado of art practiced on the periphery of society, including punk rock, "outsider" music and found art.

David lives in Fairbanks, Alaska with his wife, the poet Melina Draper, and their son Dylan.

Books by David Crouse

Copy Cats (2005)

The Man Back There (2008)

External links

• David Crouse official site
• Flannery O'Connor Aware for Short Fiction official site
• University of Alaska Fairbanks English Department’s official site

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Name	Crouse, David
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Date of birth	1971-02-14
Place of birth	Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States
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