Andrew MacPherson (Director)

Andrew MacPherson joined the Wordfest Board in 2015. He is a long-time volunteer with both Wordfest and the Calgary Folk Music Festival. From 2008-13 he was a co-coordinator of Artist Liaison for Wordfest and has been part of the Volunteer Reader program since 2006. He is a voracious reader of novels and short stories and dabbles with writing fiction. He is currently a member of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, the Alexandria Writing Society and the Alliance Française of Calgary and is an alumnus of the Banff Centre Writing with Style program. Andrew is a professional engineer and has worked for the Alberta Energy Regulator since 2005. Andrew and his wife Janice live in West Hillhurst with their teenage son, Ian.