Nice to think that Yukon-raised Ivan E. Coyote has got herself a respectable teaching gig at Carleton University these days after her novel Bow Grip won the ReLit Award, was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Fiction Prize in the U.S and was named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association.

Now we'll see how the mainstream responds to her new short story collection, The Slow Fix, in which a cousin's stepdaughter helps her overcome her lifelong dread of buying tampons and she tells a homophobe in the barber's seat next to her to shut up-among many of the subversively comic situations. In a less conservative country, Ivan E. Coyote would be famous by now.

978-1-55152-247-0

[BCBW 2008]