Christopher Coake

Christopher Coake is the author of the novel You Came Back (2012) and the story collections We’re in Trouble (2005), which won the PEN/Robert Bingham, and You Would Have Told Me Not To (2020). In 2007 he was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. His short fiction has been anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories 2004 and The Best American Noir of the Century, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, and published in journals such as Granta, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Five Points, and New Letters. In 2020, You Came Back was adapted into an Italian-language feature film, Lasciami Andare. He is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he directs the MFA program in creative writing.