About the Author

Andrea MacPherson is the author of five books: two novels, Beyond the Blue and When She was Electric, and three poetry collections, Ellipses, Away, and Natural Disasters. When She Was Electric placed number 6 on CBC Canada Reads: Peoples Choice, and Natural Disasters was long listed for the ReLit Awards. Andrea holds an MFA from the Creative Writing Department at the University of British Columbia, where she was an Editor of Prism International. She has also acted as the Reviews Editor for Event Magazine. Currently an Associate Professor at the University of the Fraser Valley, Andrea teaches creative writing and literature. She lives in Cloverdale with her family.

Reviews

Andrea MacPhersons new book, What We Once Believed, is a beautifully rendered novel that untangles the lives of Maybe, a girl on the brink of adolescence, and the women who surround her. Set in the 1970s, Maybe, along with her mother, grandmother and neighbours, struggles with political change, intimacy and the great, wide open future. With a sharp eye for detail and daily hypocrisies, Andrea has written a deeply complex story of women on the social, geographic and emotional edge. -- Jen Sookfong Lee, author of The Conjoined

MacPherson is clearly a poet, and her lyricism makes for engaging prose -- Rachel Carlson, The Winnipeg Review