Lynette Loeppky
| Lynette Loeppky | |
|---|---|
| Born | Manitoba |
| Occupation | memoirist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 2010s-present |
| Notable works | Cease |
Lynette Loeppky is a Canadian writer, who published the memoir Cease in 2015.[1] The book, a memoir of her experience when her partner Cecile Kaysoe was diagnosed with terminal cancer at a time when Loeppky was dissatisfied with and considering leaving the relationship, was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards,[2] the Writers' Guild of Alberta's Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.[3]
Born and raised in a Mennonite family in rural Manitoba, Loeppky studied Russian literature at the University of Calgary,[4] and later worked in corporate sales while residing with Kaysoe on a hobby farm in the rural outskirts of Calgary, Alberta.[1] Following Kaysoe's death, Loeppky moved back to Calgary.
References
- 1 2 "Letting go". Winnipeg Free Press, May 2, 2015.
- ↑ "Cancer, lesbian love and abuse: Lynette Loeppky memoir". Daily Xtra, March 23, 2015.
- ↑ "Douglas Coupland, Rosemary Sullivan among Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction finalists". Quill & Quire, September 16, 2015.
- ↑ "Learned happenings". Calgary Herald, June 7, 1994.