On Writing Fiction: Rethinking conventional wisdom about the craft
David Jauss is the author of two short story collections,Black MapsandCrimes of Passion, and two collections of poems,Improvising RiversandYou Are Not Here. His fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous magazines and been reprinted in such anthologies asBest American Short Stories,Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards,The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, and elsewhere. He teaches at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and chairs the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.