Henry Hoke is the author of five books, most recently the memoir Sticker and the novel Open Throat, finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction. His work appears in Elastic, Fence, Triangle House, Electric Literature, and the flash noir anthology Tiny Crimes. He co-created the performance series Enter>text in Los Angeles, and edits humor at The Offing. The First Girl in Hell, a western, is coming in 2027 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

He is represented by Jim Rutman at Sterling Lord.