David Jauss has been praised for years as one of the world’s greatest authors of short fiction, and his 2013 collection, Glossolalia: New & Selected Stories, provided the proof. Now Jauss offers up Nice People: New & Selected Stories II as a companion collection to continue the celebration of more than thirty years of publishing award-winning short fiction. Jauss’ short stories have been published in numerous magazines and reprinted in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories, and, twice in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses as well as in The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Stories from the Pushcart Prize. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a James A. Michener/Copernicus Society of America Fellowship, and three fellowships from the Arkansas Arts Council and one from the Minnesota State Arts Board. His collection Black Maps received the Associated Writers and Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction. A professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, he teaches in the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.