Bill Coates

Bill Coates was born in Phoenix. The story goes his mother slipped in an irrigation ditch and went into labor. He spent most of his life in the deserts of Arizona. He's written for a half dozen or so Arizona newspapers. He last worked as features editor for the Casa Grande Dispatch and continues to write a regular column. Some humor. Some human interest.

He started writing fiction in the '90s. He combines his experience as a reporter with a good dose of humor. And a sense of the absurd. An ex-con with a pug. A plumber on a pogo stick hopping across the country. And javelina mayhem. His wife, Cindy, is chief critic and copy editor. Bill and Cindy met at The Phoenix Gazette, an afternoon newspaper that has since folded. Cindy was the consumer action-line editor at the Gazette. She later became a lawyer. She now knits and weaves.