Ms. Coomer has been a nominee twice for the Pushcart Prize, as well as writer-in-residence for Fishtrap, Oregon's advocacy program for writing and literature in the American West. Her books include the novel Dove Creek (2010), Summer of Government Cheese (2007, 2nd ed. 2011), Devil at the Crossroads (2006), and Road, a single-poem chapbook (2006). Dove Creek was a featured title at the 2011 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Fall Tradeshow. An instructor in the English Department at Washington State University, Ms. Coomer is also a long-time Visiting Scholar for the Idaho Commission on Libraries.