Pain and Wastings, Jacked, Charmed, and Crush were written for Orca Book Publisher for the Soundings Series. Mac explains that Raymond Carver showed her that "the lives of working class people (my people) are filled with stories worth writing about too, and that you don't need to go on and on and on and on to relate human emotions when you can nail it down so adroitly with less." Writing for reluctant readers Influences and inspirationĪ self-confessed book-aholic, Mac credits Louise Fitzhugh, author of Harriet the Spy, with the realization of "what kind of power words carry, and how they can be used to sharpen your own identity and injure others." Other influences include: Anne Cameron, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro. Mac also worked at various times as a sign language interpreter, a bookstore clerk, and a child and youth advocate in a transition house. She trained as a paramedic at the Justice Institute of British Columbia. Mac dropped out of high school in Grade eleven, completing her secondary education by correspondence. Mac's first job, at age seven, was to read the Bible to an ex-Son of Freedom she was paid a quarter a page. During her childhood and youth, Mac lived in Vancouver, Grand Forks, Abbotsford and on the Sunshine Coast.
Mac was born in Kamloops, British Columbia.
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