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name: Lawrence Coates
about: Hello.I've been teaching Creative Writing for nearly twenty years, and I've been writing for as long as I can remember. I write fiction set in Northern California, where I grew up. I want to write stories that have deep roots, that always see the present as connected to the past, and that are concerned with the fate of place as well as with the fate of people.I've been teaching Creative Writing in Ohio for some time now, but I'm still writing about the part of California that feels like home to me: the East Bay, the Silicon Valley, the Monterey Bay Area. My fourth novel, The Goodbye House, was published in the fall of 2015. I also had a novella coming out in 2015 entitled Camp Olvido.My first novel, The Blossom Festival, won the Western Sta Hello.I've been teaching Creative Writing for nearly twenty years, and I've been writing for as long as I can remember. I write fiction set in Northern California, where I grew up. I want to write stories that have deep roots, that always see the present as connected to the past, and that are concerned with the fate of place as well as with the fate of people.I've been teaching Creative Writing in Ohio for some time now, but I'm still writing about the part of California that feels like home to me: the East Bay, the Silicon Valley, the Monterey Bay Area. My fourth novel, The Goodbye House, was published in the fall of 2015. I also had a novella coming out in 2015 entitled Camp Olvido.My first novel, The Blossom Festival, won the Western States Book Award in fiction and was chosen for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. My second novel, The Master of Monterey, was published in 2003, and my third novel, The Garden of the World, was published in 2012. You can find more information on my work at www.lawrencecoates.com. You can also find my blog on the techniques of literary fiction, The Formalist Fiction Writer, at www.lawrencecoates.wordpress.com.Thanks,Lawrence ...more