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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]

Lynette Loeppky
BornSteinbach, Manitoba
Occupationmemoirist
NationalityCanadian
Period2010s-present
Notable worksCease

Loeppky was born into a Mennonite family in Steinbach, Manitoba and grew up in Carman, Manitoba.[4] She studied Russian literature at the University of Calgary,[5] 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. "Letting go". Winnipeg Free Press, May 2, 2015.
  2. "Cancer, lesbian love and abuse: Lynette Loeppky memoir". Daily Xtra, March 23, 2015.
  3. "Douglas Coupland, Rosemary Sullivan among Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-fiction finalists". Quill & Quire, September 16, 2015.
  4. "Lynette Loeppky". McNally Robinson. Retrieved August 19, 2022.
  5. "Learned happenings". Calgary Herald, June 7, 1994.






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