Lily Iona MacKenzie

Lily Iona MacKenzie is a Canadian-born writer who resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a prolific author, poet, and essayist with a wide range of work published in journals such as The Malahat Review, Other Voices, and The Denver Post. Her writing often combines rich imagery with explorations of identity, memory, and human experience.

MacKenzie has published four novels (Fling!, Curva Peligrosa, Freefall: A Divine Comedy, and The Ripening: A Canadian Girl Grows Up, a sequel to Freefall) and two poetry collections: All This and California Dreaming. These works continue her tradition of creating engaging narratives with deeply human themes. Shanti Arts Publishing recently released her hybrid memoir Dreaming Myself into Old Age: One Woman’s Search for Meaning.

If you'd like to explore her work further, visit her blog at https://lilyionamackenzie.com, an excellent starting point!

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Fling!

By: Lily Iona MacKenzie

About Fling!: When ninety-year-old Bubbles receives a letter from Mexico City asking her to pick up her mother’s ashes, lost there seventy years earlier and only now surfacing, she hatches a plan. A woman with a mission, Bubbles convinces her hippie daughter Feather to accompany her on the quest. Both women have recently shed husbands and have a secondary agenda: they’d like a little action. And they get it. Alternating narratives weave together Feather and Bubbles’ odyssey. The two women travel south from Canada to Mexico where Bubbles’ long-dead mother, grandmother, and grandfather turn up, enlivening the narrative with their hilarious antics. In Mexi...