Melanie Murray
Author, For Your Tomorrow: The Way of an Unlikely Soldier.
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Why Soldiers Enlist
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Melanie Murray was born in the Northumberland Strait peninsula of Malagash, Nova Scotia. She grew up in the military town of Oromocto, New Brunswick while her father was a soldier at CFB Gagetown in the 1960s. She attended the University of New Brunswick to pursue her love of literature. After earning a B.A. in English, a B.Ed., and an M.A. (Canadian Literature), she travelled to British Columbia. Drawn to the temperate climate and fruitful abundance of the Okanagan Valley, she settled in Kelowna in 1987. Here, she’s been teaching English at Okanagan College and raising her two sons, Damian and Gabriel.
Captain Jeff Francis is her nephew. For Your Tomorrow: The Way of an Unlikely Soldier is her first book.
www.melaniemurray.ca
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