David Jauss has been praised for years as one of the world's greatest
authors of short fiction, and his 2013 collection, Glossolalia: New &
Selected Stories, provided the proof. Now Jauss offers up Nice People:
New & Selected Stories II as a companion collection to continue the
celebration of more than thirty years of publishing award-winning short
fiction. Jauss' short stories have been published in numerous magazines
and reprinted in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards:
Prize Stories, and, twice in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small
Presses as well as in The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best
Stories from the Pushcart Prize. He is the recipient of a National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a James A. Michener/Copernicus
Society of America Fellowship, and three fellowships from the Arkansas
Arts Council and one from the Minnesota State Arts Board. His collection
Black Maps received the Associated Writers and Writing Programs Award
for Short Fiction. A professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas at
Little Rock, he teaches in the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at
Vermont College of Fine Arts.