David Crouse is author of the previous short story collection Copy Cats, which was awarded The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction in 2005. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as Quarterly West, Chelsea, The Northwest Review, and The Greensboro Review, while his comic book writing has been anthologized in The Dark Horse Book of the Dead. He lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he teaches in the MFA Program at The University of Alaska-Fairbanks.