Ivan Coyote
| Ivan E. Coyote | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1969 (age 46–47) Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Other names | Ivan Elizabeth Coyote[1] |
| Occupation |
spoken word performer writer |
| Website |
www |
Ivan E. Coyote (born 1969 in Whitehorse, Yukon) is a Canadian spoken word performer and writer.
Career
Coyote began performing spoken word in 1992. They joined Arsenal Pulp Press in 2000 and have since had seven books published with them. Coyote regularly combines storytelling and music and has worked with a number of musicians including Veda Hille, Dan Mangan and Rae Spoon.[2] Coyote has been a columnist for the gay magazines Xtra! and Xtra! West for a number of years.[3]
Coyote has been writer-in-residence of a number of organisations, including Carleton University in 2007,[2] Vancouver Public Library in 2009,[4] the University of Winnipeg in 2011,[5][6] and the University of Western Ontario in 2012.[7] They also served on the jury of the 2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, a literary award for emerging LGBT writers in Canada, selecting Amber Dawn as that year's winner.[8]
In 2012, Coyote and Spoon collaborated on Gender Failure, a touring multimedia show in which they performed music and spoken word pieces about their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary.[9] A book based on the show was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2014.[10]
On November 14, 2015 Coyote did a TED talk in Vancouver entitled "We all need a safe place to pee," where they discussed the need to have gender neutral bathrooms in all public places.[11]
In 2016, they delivered the Florence Bird Lecture at Carleton University.[12] Their lecture was titled "Neither, Nor: How to Circumnavigate the Gender Binary in Seven Thousand Easy Steps".
Bibliography
| Title | Year published | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Boys Like Her | 1998 | |
| Close to Spider Man | 2000 | |
| One Man's Trash | 2002 | |
| Loose End | 2004 | |
| Bow Grip | 2006 | winner of 2007 ReLit Award; Stonewall Book Award Honor Book |
| The Slow Fix | 2008 | shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction |
| Missed Her | 2010 | |
| Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme | 2011 | co-edited with Zena Sharman; Stonewall Book Award Honor Book |
| One in Every Crowd | 2012 | |
| Gender Failure | 2014 | co-written with Rae Spoon; based on their 2012 live show |
| Tomboy Survival Guide | 2016 |
References
- ↑ Cameron, Nicola. "Nipple Clamps and Pot-Holders: Shifting identities with Ivan E. Coyote and Tagralik Partridge". Ottawa International Writers Festival. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
- 1 2 "bio". ivanecoyote.com. 18 July 2010. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
- ↑ "Ivan E. Coyote". Arsenal Pulp Press. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
- ↑ "COYOTE, Ivan E.". ABCBookWorld. 2010. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
- ↑ "Ivan Coyote named University of Winnipeg Writer-in-Residence (Dec 2010)". Arsenal Pulp Press. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
- ↑ Staff Writer (2010-11-17). "Ivan Coyote named U of W's sixth writer-in-residence". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
- ↑ University, Department of Communications and Public Affairs, Western. "Western News - Writer-in-residence stresses sharing an honest story". Western News. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
- ↑ "Vancouver's Amber Dawn wins LGBT literary award". CBC News, June 26, 2012.
- ↑ Richard Burnett, "Queer icons Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon step “out of the box” for Gender Failure Show". The Gazette, November 20, 2012.
- ↑ "Rae Spoon and Ivan E. Coyote share personal stories in Gender Failure". Quill & Quire, June 20, 2014.
- ↑ TED (2016-03-18), Why we need gender-neutral bathrooms | Ivan Coyote, retrieved 2016-03-24
- ↑ "Florence Bird Lecture - Women's and Gender Studies, The Pauline Jewett Institute". carleton.ca. Retrieved 2016-03-08.