David Nikki Crouse is author of the short story collections Copy Cats, The Man Back There, and the collection of novellas Trouble Will Save You. David’s work has received the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Mary McCarthy Prize, the Lawrence Prize, and additional short story awards, and been published in magazines such as the Kenyon Review, Witness, the Colorado Review, Agni, and the Greensboro Review. They live in Seattle, Washington, where they serve as the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Endowed Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Washington-Seattle.