Occupation memoirist Name Lynette Loeppky Notable works Cease | Period 2010s-present Nationality Canadian | |
Lynette Loeppky is a Canadian writer, who published the memoir Cease in 2015. 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, the Writers' Guild of Alberta's Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
Born and raised in a Mennonite family in rural Manitoba, Loeppky studied Russian literature at the University of Calgary, and later worked in corporate sales while residing with Kaysoe on a hobby farm in the rural outskirts of Calgary, Alberta. Following Kaysoe's death, Loeppky moved back to Calgary.