Who was Renee Good?
It's quite a strong reaction to want to move to Canada after the last federal election!
"Renee Good studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and in 2020 she won an undergraduate prize from the
Academy of American Poets for her piece entitled On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs.
"When she is not writing, reading, or talking about writing, she has movie marathons and makes messy art with her daughter and two sons," her biography from the prize reads. Good graduated the same year from the university's College of Arts and Letters with a degree in English."
A mother of three and award-winning poet, Good's sudden death sparks protests across the US.
www.bbc.com
"In 2023, Timmy Macklin died at the age of 36, and Good became primarily a stay-at-home mom, her first husband said.
After she met and married Rebecca Good, 40, the couple settled in Kansas City, Missouri, and crafted a quiet life.
As a gay couple living in a red state, they weren’t overtly political, at least among the residents of their quiet street in the Waldo neighborhood, their neighbor Jennifer Ferguson recalled Thursday. But
after Donald Trump was reelected in 2024, the two broke their lease and told Ferguson they were moving to Canada because of the political situation.
“[Becca] said, ‘We’re getting out,’” Ferguson said. “‘We can go to Canada until we figure out what we are going to do.’”
