Ivan E. Coyote’s novel Bow Grip won the 2007 ReLit Award and was named the Stonewall Honor Book of the year by the American Library Association. Coyote also won the Danuta Gleed Short Fiction Prize, was twice short-listed for the Ferro-Grumley Women's Fiction Award and in 2008, Loose End was a finalist for VPL’s One Book, One Vancouver program. Coyote is also a long-time columnist for Xtra! in Toronto and Xtra! West in Vancouver. While enjoying immense success as a writer, Coyote’s first love is live storytelling.

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