Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2
Christopher Coake
Christopher Coake is the author of a short story collection We're In Trouble (Penguin/Harcourt). The stories previously appeared in journals such as Five Points, Epoch, Gettysburg Review and The Southern Review. He received an MFA from Ohio State University, and in 2006 he was awarded the Robert Bingham Fellowship for best debut fiction from PEN American Center. He is currently at work on a novel set in turn-of-the-last-century Colorado. Coake, a native of Indiana, lives in Reno, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Nevada. (He does not gamble.) He lives with his wife, Stephanie Lauer, and together they care for two very needy dogs. When the above photo was taken, he was suffering from flu. 'That First Time' is a new story.
