Lily Hoy Price
Lily Hoy Price (January 14, 1930 – February 16, 2021) was a Canadian memoirist from British Columbia. She grew up in Quesnel as the ninth of twelve children in the Hoy family. She lived in England, Nigeria, Uganda and Nova Scotia before settling in Courtenay, BC.
At age 70, she joined a creative-writing workshop at North Island College and began writing her life story. Her work appeared in Ricepaper magazine and in the Verve essays collection (2006). Her first book, I Am Full Moon: Stories of a Ninth Daughter, was published by Brindle & Glass, with photographs by her father, Chow Dong Hoy, who documented the Cariboo in the 20th century.
Price belonged to several writer groups, including the Federation of BC Writers, the Comox Valley Writers Society, and the Valley Women of Words. In 2009 she was named one of 20 new voices at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, alongside Rebecca Hendry, another Brindle & Glass author. She died at home on February 16, 2021, at the age of 91.
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