Joe Coomer, born Joseph Alan Coomer, is a fiction and nonfiction writer who lives outside of Fort Worth, Texas, and in Stonington, Maine. Born November 3, 1958, in Fort Worth, Texas, Coomer attended the University of Kentucky between 1977 and 1979 and subsequently attended the University of Texas at Arlington a single semester. He completed his undergraduate degree at Southern Methodist University in 1981. He married Isabelle Tokumaru, an artist and art conservator, in Maine in 2003.