Margaret Macpherson

Margaret Macpherson grew up in the Northwest Territories on the shores of Great Slave Lake. She has a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and has worked as a journalist and teacher in Halifax, Bermuda, and Vancouver. Macpherson is the author of four non-fiction volumes including Silk, Spices and Glory: In Search of the Northwest Passage and the award-winning biography Nellie McClung: Voice for the Voiceless. Her first collection of short fiction, Perilous Departures, was published by Signature Editions in 2004. This is Margaret Macpherson’s first novel.