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About Christopher Coake

Author Christopher Coake

Christopher Coake - Quick Facts

  • Favorite Activity (not related to writing): playing guitar, photography, and teaching.
  • Favorite place to go when thinking through a plot issue or book idea: A walk in the desert.
  • Favorite Author: Alice Munro
  • Favorite Books: Any Munro story collection; Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried; Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House
  • Favorite Movie: The Sweet Hereafter (Director: Atom Egoyan)
  • Favorite Pastime: Collecting typewriters and fountain pens.
  • Favorite Speech and Why: Faulkner’s Nobel acceptance speech. It’s earnest and may be overblown, but so is “Eye of the Tiger.”
  • What do you most like about being an author: I find endless fascination in trying to make the hardest things to say, thrilling to read.

Interesting Highlights

Do you teach on a specific topic?

Yes: creative writing.

What specialized skills or knowledge do you have?

I love to teach writers working in both “literary” and genre writing.

Associations

  • Boards: The University of Nevada Press Editorial Advisory Board
  • Universities: The University of Nevada, Reno. (Grad of the MFA program at Ohio State and the MA program in creative writing at Miami U of Ohio). Also attended Ball State University as an undergrad, with a degree in teaching secondary education (English).
  • Teaching: Associate Professor and MFA Program Director at U of Nevada, Reno. I also direct the UNR Summer Youth Writing Program for local high school students.

Other Books

  • We’re in Trouble: Stories (Harcourt, 2005)
  • You Came Back (Grand Central, 2012).
  • I’ve been translated into Italian, French, and German.

Books Made Into Movies

You Came Back: An Italian-language feature-length adaptation, Sei Tornato, is currently in production in Italy, for release in 2020.

Awards

  • The PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship in 2006.
  • Named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 2007.
  • My short story “All Through the House” was anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories 2004 and The Best American Noir of the Century, both by Houghton Mifflin.
  • “Getaway,” from You Would Have Told Me Not To, was a Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2019.

Current Project

A strange fantasy novel that is equal parts H.P. Lovecraft, N. K. Jemisin, and Italo Calvino.

Website & Social Media

Twitter: @chriscoake

Facebook: @AuthorChristopherCoake

You Would Have Told Me Not To

You Would Have Told Me Not To

By Christopher Coake

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