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 Bingham fellowship in 2006. He was named by the 2007 issue of the British fiction journal Granta

Granta

Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centers on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, The Observer stated, "In its blend of...

as one of the twenty "Best Young American Novelists."

Coake currently resides in Reno, Nevada

Reno, Nevada

Reno is the county seat of Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The city has a population of about 220,500 and is the most populous Nevada city outside of the Las Vegas metropolitan area...

, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Nevada, Reno

University of Nevada, Reno

The University of Nevada, Reno , is a teaching and research university established in 1874 and located in Reno, Nevada, USA...

. His forthcoming novel, You Came Back, is scheduled for release by Grand Central Publishing in the summer of 2012.