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