Ivan Coyote
Award-winning Canadian writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote is the author of seven books. Her latest short story collection, Missed Her, will be out in September on Arsenal Pulp Press. An internationally renowned performer, Coyote appears at various festivals and venues as well as at colleges and high schools. She says, “I like to do gigs in small towns to an audience full of loggers and pulp mill workers. This is when I will bust out a fishing story or a grandmother story. When they see the common human experience in my work, I tell a story about being hassled in the women’s washroom. Any queers in the audience see themselves represented, and the loggers are given something to think about. I want to build a community of humans that care about the lives of the strangers sitting next to them.” -CB
