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Andrea MacPherson is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Born in 1976 inVancouver,British Columbia, she was educated at theUniversity of British Columbia where she received aMaster's Degree inCreative Writing. She works as afreelance editor andlecturer, and currently teaches writing withVancouver Island University (VIU) andSimon Fraser University (SFU)'s writing and publishing program, and with theUniversity of the Fraser Valley (UFV). MacPherson also taught writing classes at variouscolleges (VIU, UFV, and KPU were all upgraded touniversity status fromuniversity colleges in 2008), includingKwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) and the University of the Fraser Valley. She served as editor of Prism International.
MacPherson was the Editor ofPrism International from 2000 to 2001 and took over the position of Reviews Editor withEvent[1] 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 onCanada Reads: People's Choice. Her second novel,Beyond the Blue, was published in 2007 byRandom House Canada and details the lives of four women in 1918Dundee, 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 ofBritish Columbia. It was longlisted for the 2008ReLit Awards. Her second collection,Away was published in 2008 by Signature Editions. It is a collection of travel poems, ranging from an execution yard inDublin, Ireland to the calderas of Santorini,Greece. Her poetry was anthologized in 2009'sHow the Light Gets In, published by theWaterford Institute of Technology, Ireland.
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