Ph.D. Student Coyote Shook Wins Florida Review Chapbook Contest

October 21, 2020 Guest User

Please join us in congratulating Ph.D. student Coyote Shook for winning The Florida Review's 2020 Leiby Chapbook Contest for their graphic memoir, "Coyote the Beautiful"! Shook's chapbook will be released in Spring 2021.

Last year's winner Lynne Nugent has this to say about "Coyote the Beautiful": "This visually inventive and emotionally compelling graphic memoir recounts the experiences of a queer writer navigating a fatphobic society and the slights both outright and subtle that have accumulated throughout their life, including gastric bypass surgery and its complications. Interwoven with references to Talullah Bankhead, Emily Dickinson, My Fair Lady, and other cultural touchstones, this memoir indicts a society that demands conformity to beauty standards at any cost. Coyote the narrator is cultured, funny, defiant—someone who is a delight to spend time with.”