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David Nikki Crouse is a short story writer and professor at the University of Washington. Crouse's work explores issues of identity and alienation, and their stories are populated with characters living on the fringes of American society. The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction was awarded to them in 2005 for their first collection of short stories, Copy Cats. Published in 2008, their most recent collection of stories, The Man Back There, was awarded the Mary McCarthy Prize.