Ivan Coyote is the award-winning author, co-author or co-editor of eleven books, including Tomboy Survival Guide, shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Nonfiction Prize and an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. They are also the creator of four short films as well as three CDs that combine storytelling with music. Ivan is a seasoned stage performer and an audience favourite at storytelling, literary, film, and folk music festivals. Their latest book is Rebent Sinner. Ivan lives in Vancouver.

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• Long-listed, George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature
• Short-listed, Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada for Nonfiction
• Winner, Stonewall Book Award Honor Book
• Long-listed, BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction

A wryly confessional memoir ... by turns raw, bittersweet, and funny. -Publishers Weekly

Coyote is poetic in their phrasing and plain spoken with their truths. -EDGE Media Network

An emotionally powerful memoir by a great storyteller about normal life. -The Globe and Mail

Speaking for those who have had 'difference squeezed or pounded or prayed' out of them and of being 'trapped in a world that makes very little space for bodies like mine,' Coyote is by turn eloquent, provocative, and persuasive. -Vancouver Sun