Deborah Coates

Writer. Owned by dogs.

Deborah Coates writes science fiction and fantasy. Her first novel, Wide Open, was published by Tor in March, 2012. Her second novel, Deep Down, which features many of the same characters as Wide Open, was published in March, 2013. The third novel in the series, Strange Country, was published in May, 2014. Wide Open has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel for 2012 and is on the 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List. Her short stories have been published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Strange Horizons, tor.com, and Best American Fantasy 2, among others.

Deborah grew up on a small farm in western New York and currently lives in central Iowa. She has been a farmhand, a factory worker, a statistician, a researcher, an educator and is currently an IT professional. She has two dogs, both German Pinschers. Blue tracks, does obedience and rally and prowls the back yard looking for Things. Gracie theoretically does the same.