Vermont College of Fine Arts

DAVID JAUSS, fiction writer and poet, is the author of three collections of short stories, Glossolalia: New & Selected Stories (Press 53, ‘13), Black Maps (Univ. of Mass. Press,’96; Dzanc Books, ‘13), winner of the AWP Award in Short Fiction, and Crimes of Passion (Story Press, ’85; Dzanc Books, ’13); two collections of poems, You Are Not Here (Fleur-de-Lis Press, ‘02), winner of the Fleur-de-Lis Poetry Prize, and Improvising Rivers (Cleveland State Univ. Press, '95), runner-up for the Cleveland State Univ. Press Poetry Prize; a collection of essays, On Writing Fiction  (Writer’s Digest Books, ‘11); and a monograph on closure in literature and the arts, “A Crack in Everything”: How We Know What’s Done Is Done (Haystack Mountain, ‘09).  He has also co-edited, with Philip Dacey, Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms (HarperCollins, ’86; Longman, ’04) and edited The Best of Crazyhorse (Univ. of Arkansas Press, ‘90), a collection of poems and stories from the first three decades of that highly regarded  literary journal, and Words Overflown by Stars (Writer’s Digest Books, ’09), a collection of essays on the craft of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by VCFA's MFA in Writing faculty. His short stories have been included in the Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize, and two Pushcart Prize anthologies, and in The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: Best Stories from the First 25 Years of the Pushcart Prize. His comprehensive essay on the history of the case of the West Memphis Three appears in the e-book edition of Damien Echols’s Life After Death (Blue Rider Press, ’12) and on the Blue Rider Press website. David is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, three fellowships from the Arkansas Arts Council, and a James A. Michener fellowship. He teaches creative writing at the Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock.  For more information, please see www.davidjauss.com.