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Maureen Brownlee was born on the western slope of the northern Rockies. A former journalist, she has also worked as an outfitter’s cook, a trail guide, a bookkeeper and an employment counsellor. For ten years she was variously publisher, editor, reporter, photographer, graphic designer and janitor for a weekly community newspaper. She studied literature and creative writing at UNBC and the Open University. Cambium Blue is her second novel; her first was Loggers’ Daughters (Oolichan Books, 2013). Brownlee lives near Valemount, BC.
Maureen Brownlee's heart shines through these characters and this place: Cambium Blue is a wise and moving meditation on life in a small town and what it means to be human. --Jacqueline Baker, author of The Broken Hours and The Horseman's Graves Maureen Brownlee fits a universe of love, struggle, heartbreak and joy into one small northern town--and in so doing, snuggles this book right into our own hearts in the process. Cambium Blue is a wonderful meditation on the communities that keep us going and a sweet testament to the friendships that surprise us at all stages of life. A beautiful gem of a novel. --Amanda Leduc, author of The Centaur's Wife, The Miracles of Ordinary Men and Disfigured: on Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space Maureen Brownlee is a vital and important voice in British Columbia fiction, capturing a way of life under-represented in our country's literature. Cambium Blue vibrates with violence and sings with beauty. This story, these characters, this environmental and political discussion - all so crucially important today, right now. Read it. --Angie Abdou, author of The Bone Cage, In Case I Go and This One Wild Life: a Mother-Daughter Wilderness Memoir
