David Crouse (born 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a short story writer and teacher.
Crouse's work explores issues of identity and alienation, and his stories are populated with characters living on the fringes of American society.
[1] Published in 2008, his most recent collection of stories, The Man Back There, was awarded the Mary McCarthy Prize.
With a collection of three novellas entitled Continuity nearing completion, he has begun work on his first novel.
Having helped to establish a creative writing program at Chester College of New England, a renowned liberal arts college located in Chester, New Hampshire, Crouse returned to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, which awarded him his MFA in Creative Writing in 1996.