David Nikki Crouse is the Flannery O'Connor Award-Winning author of short story collections Copy Cats, The Man Back There, and the collection of novellas Trouble Will Save You. David’s work has received 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 Milliman Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at The University of Washington-Seattle.