Christopher Coake

American writer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican writer
PlacesUnited States of America
isWriter Professor Educator
Work fieldAcademia Literature
Gender
Male
Birth28 November 1971, Indiana, USA
Age53 years
Star signSagittarius
Education
Ball State UniversityBachelor of Science(—1993)
Miami UniversityMaster of Arts(—1998)
Ohio State UniversityMaster of Fine Arts(—2004)
The details

Biography

Christopher Coake (born November 28, 1971) is an American fiction writer.

Background

Coake is the author of a collection of short stories, We're in Trouble (Harcourt, 2005), for which he was awarded the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize in 2006, and of the novel You Came Back (Grand Central, 2012). He was named by the 2007 issue of the British fiction journal Granta as one of the twenty "Best Young American Novelists."

Coake currently resides in Reno, Nevada, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Nevada, Reno and directs their MFA program. He received the Silver Pen Award from the Friends of the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries on November 14, 2013.

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