Lynette Loeppky

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]

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.