Ivan Coyote
Former residence, 3000 block, Victoria Dr.
"I lost a few stories, but stories breed like bunnies and grow like weeds. And I heard somewhere that ashes make great fertilizer."
From “Damage Deposit” in Loose End.
Here Ivan Coyote lived for fourteen years in an attic apartment during the rise of an unparalleled literary career. A devastating fire in the building forced Coyote to vacate. The rent had been $316 per month. An electrical fire that destroyed Coyote’s computer is described in Loose End (2006), a collection of Coyote’s columns from Xtra West, a queer newspaper in Vancouver. The columns mainly described life in the East End of Vancouver. In 2009, Ivan Coyote was named as writer-in-residence for the Vancouver Public Library. Ten years earlier that would likely have been unthinkable for such an outspoken LGBT advocate. Ivan Coyote has now evolved into a mainstream headliner at events around the world, and a spokesperson who advocates for the use of the gender neutral pronoun ‘they/ them/theirs’ instead of the gender specific terms ‘his’ and ‘hers.’ In 2007, Ivan Coyote won the ReLit Award for their novel Bow Grip.
