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Lily Iona MacKenzie

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in Edmonton, Canada

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In her youth, Lily Iona MacKenzie, a poet and novelist who also writes nonfiction, frolicked on a Canadian farm in an area almost too small to be on the map. She didn’t practice writing then, but she did learn to pay attention to her surroundings. The clouds in the sky offered images that stirred her imagination and stimulated her dreaming self. Cows, calves, sheep, pigs, chickens, turkeys, dogs, cats, and horses were her early teachers and her main playmates. Those years instilled in her the need to honor those in her care and the realization that being successful involves hard work. As a writer, it includes her dedication to the writing craft and her belief that commitment and perseverance form the machinery that writers depend upon. Visi ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 184 ratings · 105 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Fling! 3.91 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Curva Peligrosa 3.65 avg rating — 46 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freefall: A Divine Comedy 3.97 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ripening: A Canadian Girl Grows Up! 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume VIII by Brian James Lewis (Editor), Peter Orulllian (Contributor), Luke Spooner (Illustrator) 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Speak and Speak Again (Pact Press Anthology Book 1) by Ruth Feiertag (Editor, Contributor), Michelle Rosquillo (Editor, Contributor), Jaynie Royal (Editor, Contributor) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All This 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreaming Myself into Old Age: One Woman's Search for Meaning 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.

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At Heaven's Door: What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better

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Working with Images: The Theoretical Base of Archetypal Psychology

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The ambiguous title of My Marriage Sabbatical, along with the clarifying subtitle, A Memoir Of Solo Travel And Lasting Love, immediately draws readers into “Leah’s” deep-seated need to recreate her thirty-year-old marriage with “Charley,” a need he s ...more
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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― Walt Whitman

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