ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Andrea MacPherson, a poet and novelist, holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She has published two novels, When She Was Electric (Raincoast, 2003) and Beyond the Blue (Random House, 2007) and a previous collection of poems, Natural Disasters (Palimpsest Press, 2007). When She Was Electric placed sixth on CBC Radio’s Canada Reads: People’s Choice in 2004. She is a past editor of Prism International, the reviews editor for Event, and teaches Creative Writing and English at University College of the Fraser Valley and Douglas College. She lives in Cloverdale, BC.