Christopher Coake (born November 28, 1971) is an American fiction writer.
Background
Coake is the author of two collections of short stories,''You Would Have Told Me Not To'' (Delphinium Books, 2020),
and ''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
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'' as one of the twenty "Best Young American Novelists."
Coake currently resides in
Reno, Nevada
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, where he teaches creative writing at the
University of Nevada, Reno
The University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada, the University of Nevada, or UNR) is a public land-grant research university in Reno, Nevada. It is the state's flagship public university and primary land grant institution. It was founded on October 12, ...
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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1971 births
Living people
American short story writers