Ivan Coyote is a writer, performer and one of Canada’s best-loved storytellers. Their 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 (and scores of YouTube views) around the world. In spring 2015, Coyote launched the stage show Tomboy Survival Guide, performing sold-out shows at the PuSh Theatre Festival and Verses Festival of Words. Including their current book featured at Wordfest 2016, Coyote is the author of 11 books.

Tomboy Survival Guide

Tomboy Survival Guide, a funny and moving memoir told in stories, is Ivan Coyote recounting of the pleasures and difficulties of growing up a tomboy in Canada’s Yukon. Coyote shares how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who don’t fit neatly into boxes or identities or labels.