Ivan Coyote was born and raised in Whitehorse Yukon and is the son of a welder and the daughter of a government worker. Ivan is the author of three collections of short stories, a monthly columnist for Xtra West, and a CBC lovechild. Ivan’s work has also appeared in the National Post, the Georgia Straight, Geist, Shared Vision, Nerve, and Curve Magazines.

Ivan's first and truest love is live storytelling, and over the last ten years she has become an audience favourite at music, poetry, spoken word and writer's festivals from Anchorage to New York City. The Globe and Mail called Ivan "a natural-born storyteller" and Ottawa X Press said " Coyote is to CanLit what k.d. lang is to country music: a beautifully odd fixture."