Ivan E. Coyote
Ivan E. Coyote is a writer and performer. She is the author of six books published by Arsenal Pulp Press: the five story collections Close to Spider Man, (shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Short Fiction Prize), One Man's Trash, and Loose End (shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Women's Fiction Award), The Slow Fix (shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award), and Missed Her, as well as the novel Bow Grip (also shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Women's Fiction Award and named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association). Ivan is also the co-editor of Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. She was also a founding member of the performance collective Taste This. She is a long-time columnist for Xtra! in Toronto and Xtra! West in Vancouver. Originally from the Yukon, Ivan is a longtime resident of Vancouver.
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Bow Grip
Winner of the ReLit Award for Best Novel
Shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award for Women's Fiction
An American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book
Ivan E. Coyote is acclaimed as one of North America's most beguiling storytellers; Ivan's honest, down-to-earth tales, many of which are based on personal experience, are compelling for their simpl …
Close to Spider Man
Close to Spider Man marks the debut of an exciting new literary talent: a collection of connected stories whose female narrators seek out lives for themselves amidst the lonely, breathtaking landscape of the Yukon. The young women in Ivan Coyote's deeply personal stories are looking to make a break from their circumstances, but the North is in thei …
Loose End
Ivan E. Coyote has developed a reputation as one of North America's most disarming storytellers; her tales of life on the roads and trails of the North as well as rural America are rich in their plainspoken, honest truths. In Loose End, her third story collection, Ivan focuses her attention on the city: urban life, specifically in the East End of V …
Missed Her
Shortlisted for a ReLit Award
Now in its second printing
Ivan E. Coyote is a master storyteller and performer; her beautiful, funny stories about growing up queer in the Canadian north and living out loud on Canada's west coast have attracted big audiences whether gay, straight,or otherwise. Missed Her is Ivan's fifth story collection, following 200 …
One in Every Crowd
Ivan E. Coyote is one of Canada's best-loved storytellers; her honest, wry, plain-spoken tales of growing up in the Yukon and living out loud on the west coast have attracted readers and live audiences around the world. For many years, Ivan has performed in high schools, where her talks have inspired and galvanized many young people to embrace thei …
One Man's Trash
In Close to Spider Man?which won a Danuta Gleed Literary Award?readers were introduced to the crystalline storytelling voice of Ivan Coyote. The talent evident in that first collection is confirmed with One Man's Trash, a series of connected stories about searching out new frontiers, and being on the road.
The characters in One Man's Trash make evid …
Persistence
Named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association
Lambda Literary Award finalist
In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is Pe …
The Slow Fix
Shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award (lesbian fiction)
Ivan E. Coyote is one of Canada's most acclaimed storytellers; her first three collections were insightful, deeply personal stories about gender, identity, and community. Ivan's most recent book, Bow Grip (2006), was her first novel; it won the ReLit Award, was shortlisted for the Ferro-Gruml …
