Ivan Coyote

Ivan Coyote

Ivan Coyote

Born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Ivan Coyote is an award-winning author of eight collections of short stories, one novel, three CD’s, four short films and a renowned performer, Ivan’s first love is live storytelling, and over the last nineteen years they have become an audience favorite at music, poetry, spoken word and writer’s festivals from Anchorage to Amsterdam.

Ivan began performing in 1992 and in 1996 co-founded Taste This, a four-person performance troupe that combined live music, storytelling and performance poetry to create a text driven genre-busting collaborative exchange. Taste This toured North America extensively and in 1998 the four artists published Boys Like Her, a critically acclaimed book that took the stage show to the printed page. Boys Like Her sold out three editions and continues to be considered a notable Canadian contribution to the dialogue around gender identity and sexuality.