Andrea MacPherson is a Canadian poet and novelist.

Biography

Born in 1976 in

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, she was educated at the

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where she received a

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in Creative Writing. She works as a freelance editor and lecturer, and currently teaches writing with

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(VIU) and Simon Fraser University (SFU)'s writing and publishing program, and with the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV). MacPherson also taught writing classes at various

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s (VIU, UFV, and KPU were all upgraded to

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status from

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s in 2008), including Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) and the University of the Fraser Valley. She served as editor of Prism International. MacPherson was the Editor of ''Prism International'' from 2000–2001 and took over the position of Reviews Editor with ''Event'

in 2006. She held the position until 2010. MacPherson's first novel, ''When She Was Electric'', was published in 2003 with Raincoast. The novel later went on to be named No. 6 on '' Canada Reads, Canada Reads: People's Choice''. Her second novel, ''Beyond the Blue'', was published in 2007 by

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Canada and details the lives of four women in 1918

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, Scotland. ''Natural Disasters'' was released in July 2007 by Palimpsest Press and is concerned with shared history and the influence of geography on the self, detailing much of the landscape of

. It was longlisted for the 2008

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. Her second collection, ''Away'' was published in 2008 by Signature Editions. It is a collection of travel poems, ranging from an execution yard in

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to the calderas of Santorini,

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. Her poetry was anthologized in 2009's ''How the Light Gets In'', published by the Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland.

Selected works

* 2003: ''When She Was Electric'' Raincoast * 2007: ''Beyond the Blue'' Random House * 2007: ''Natural Disasters'' Palimpsest Press * 2008: ''Away: Poems'' Signature Editions * 2009: ''How the Light Gets In'' Waterford Institute

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Macpherson, Andrea Canadian women poets 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian poets Canadian people of Scottish descent Poets from Vancouver Novelists from Vancouver Canadian women novelists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of British Columbia alumni 21st-century Canadian women writers