Ivan Coyote

Ivan Coyote is the award-winning author, co-author, or co-editor of 11 books, including One in Every Crowd (named one of Vulture’s 38 Best Queer YA Novels), Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and Tomboy Survival Guide, shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and an ALA Stonewall Honor Book. They are also the creator of four short films as well as three CDs that combine storytelling with music. Coyote is a seasoned stage performer and an audience favourite at storytelling, literary, film, and folk music festivals. Coyote lives in Vancouver.

Website: ivancoyote.com
Twitter: @ivancoyote
Instagram: @ivancoyote

Coyote is to Canadian literature what k.d. lang is to country music: a beautifully odd fixture.” — Ottawa Xpress

FESTIVAL BOOK

Rebent Sinner

Rebent Sinner is the work of an accomplished artist whose plain truths about their experience will astound readers with their utter, breathtaking humanity.

Coyote takes on the patriarchal and the political, as well as the intimate and the personal in these beguiling and revealing stories of what it means to be trans and non-binary today, at a time in their life when they must carry the burden of heartbreaking history with them, while combatting those who would misgender them or deny their very existence. These stories span 30 years of tackling TERFs, legislators, and bathroom police, sure, but there is joy and pleasure and triumph to be found here too, as Coyote pays homage to personal heroes like the late Leslie Feinberg while gently guiding younger trans folk to prove to themselves that there is a way out of the darkness.