Lily Hoy Price (January 14, 1930 – February 16, 2021) was a Canadian memoirist. She grew up in Quesnel, British Columbia and was the ninth daughter of twelve children in the Hoy family. She lived in

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and

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. At 70, she took a creative-writing workshop at

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and started setting down her life story. Her writing has been published in Ricepaper magazine and in the collection of essays, Verve (2006). Her first book is ''I Am Full Moon: Stories of a Ninth Daughter'', stylishly published by Brindle & Glass. The photos are by her father, Chow Dong Hoy, who documented the Cariboo through much of the 20th century.From the Vancouver Sun
, July 2009. Price was a member of the

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, the Comox Valley Writer's Society and the Valley Women of Words (out of

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). Lily also participated in the 2009 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts as one of "20 new voices", along with Rebecca Hendry, who is also published by Brindle & Glass. She lived in

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. Price died at home on February 16, 2021, at the age of 91.

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1930 births 2021 deaths Canadian writers of Asian descent 21st-century Canadian memoirists Canadian people of Chinese descent Writers from British Columbia Canadian women memoirists {{Canada-writer-stub