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Rae Spoon is the non-binary author of the Lambda Literary Award finalist title First Spring Grass Fire (2012), and co-author (with Ivan Coyote) of Gender Failure (2014). They won a Dayne Ogilvie Prize Honour of Distinction by the Writers' Trust of Canada.
In 2021, they published the YA fiction book, Green Glass Ghosts (Arsenal Pulp $19.95) about a young queer narrator moving to Vancouver in the year 2000 to get away from a traumatic childhood and abusive family to start a new life. It was never going to be easy.
Rae Spoon is the subject of a National Film Board documentary entitled My Prairie Home (2013), which screened at film festivals internationally, including the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. They have released ten albums for which they have been nominated for two Polaris Prizes and a Western Canada Music award. They live on Lekwungen territory (Victoria).
BOOKS:
First Spring Grass Fire (Arsenal Pulp, 2012) $14.95 978-1551524801
Gender Failure (Arsenal Pulp, 2014) $19.95 978-1551525365. Co-authored with Ivan Coyote
Green Glass Ghosts (Arsenal Pulp, 2021) $19.95 9781551528380
[BCBW 2021]
In 2021, they published the YA fiction book, Green Glass Ghosts (Arsenal Pulp $19.95) about a young queer narrator moving to Vancouver in the year 2000 to get away from a traumatic childhood and abusive family to start a new life. It was never going to be easy.
Rae Spoon is the subject of a National Film Board documentary entitled My Prairie Home (2013), which screened at film festivals internationally, including the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. They have released ten albums for which they have been nominated for two Polaris Prizes and a Western Canada Music award. They live on Lekwungen territory (Victoria).
BOOKS:
First Spring Grass Fire (Arsenal Pulp, 2012) $14.95 978-1551524801
Gender Failure (Arsenal Pulp, 2014) $19.95 978-1551525365. Co-authored with Ivan Coyote
Green Glass Ghosts (Arsenal Pulp, 2021) $19.95 9781551528380
[BCBW 2021]
