Born in Canada’s Yukon Territory, they live in Vancouver, BC. Coyote is the author of five books, all published by Arsenal Pulp Press. By doing so, they help us to embrace not what makes us women or men, but human beings. Ivan excels at finding the small yet significant truths in our everyday gestures and interactions. With The Slow Fix, Ivan returns to their short story roots in a collection that is disarming, warm, and funny, while it at the same time subverts our preconceived notions of gender roles. Ivan’s most recent book, Bow Grip, was their first novel it was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Prize for Women’s Fiction, was named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association, and won Canada’s ReLit Award for Best Novel of the Year. Coyote’s reports of this struggle are not only great stories, but a reminder of how truly the personal is political. Living a life that continually subverts social conventions around gender is damn hard work. Coyote featured insightful, deeply personal tales about gender, identity, and community, based on their own experiences growing up queer in Canada’s North. In The Slow Fix, Ivan Coyote reminds us that the small details of everyday life can be the stuff of high art. The first three story collections by Ivan E. ”Coyote is an important literary voice, blending a keen sense of gay identity and community with a refreshing appreciation for the goodness at the heart of some straight people.”- Out
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