Nancy-Loo Patterson taught at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, from 1962 until she retired in 1992. The University of Waterloo named her a Distinguished Professor Emerita and Wilfrid Laurier University awarded her an honorary doctor of letters. Patterson taught art history and was an active artist, poet, and fiction writer. She was also an enthusiastic conference participant and scholar, who published extensively on her favorite research subject, the Inklings and authors associated with them. Her reviews provide an extraordinary history of mythopoeic scholarship from 1975 through 2001.