Rae Spoon is a non-binary performer, composer, music producer, visual content producer/director and author based on the territory of the Lekwungen speaking peoples in Victoria, BC. Rae supports other artists in forging their own spaces through industry workshops, sound recording, mentorship, grant writing and music production. Rae has been producing recordings since 2001 ranging from folk to indie rock and electronic and has been producing music for other artists since 2008. and have released ten solo albums. Rae has toured internationally over the past twenty years and they have been nominated for two Polaris Prizes and a Western Canada Music award. They have co-directed and or produced four music videos. They currently run a collaborative recording mobile recording studio (meaning that the artists get to sit at the computer and find sounds they like in the DAW if they want) called Biome Arts. Rae Spoon is the subject and composer in the NFB documentary-musical, My Prairie Home. Set against majestic images of the infinite expanses of the Canadian Prairies, the film features Spoon crooning about their queer and musical coming of age. Interviews, performances and music sequences reveal Spoon’s inspiring process of building a life of their own, as a trans person and as a musician. In 2015, Rae founded Coax Records in the hopes of using their experience as a marginalized artist to create more space in the music industry. They aim to build community where artists from lots of backgrounds can share their music on their own terms while learning how to support each other. Coax Records has released thirty-nine albums by twenty-eight artists many of whom have received a lot of media attention, won Juno Awards and been nominated for Polaris Prizes. Rae’s first book, First Spring Grass Fire, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2012. The book was a finalist for a Lambda Award in the Transgender Fiction category and was shortlisted for an Expozine Alternative Press Award. In the spring of 2014, Rae was a finalist for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for their body of work. The award is presented by the Writers’ Trust of Canada to emerging LGBTQ2S writers in Canada. Rae’s second book, co- written with Ivan E. Coyote and titled Gender Failure, was published in 2014. Gender Failure was on the 2015 Over The Rainbow Reading List and was translated into German. In 2017, Rae also published a humorous song-writing instructional booklet, How To (Hide) Be(hind) Your Songs. In 2021, Rae’s first novel, Green Glass Ghosts, was illustrated by Gem Hall and published by Arsenal Pulp Press.