Betty Jane Hegerat

Betty Jane Hegerat has been a social worker, a teacher, and a serious student of fiction. She has studied at the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, Sage Hill, the Banff Centre, and the University of British Columbia where she completed an MFA in Creative Writing. An avid gardener, she has learned that the challenges of growing food and flowers in an unpredictable climate bear striking resemblance to those of raising children. Domesticity, the messy dynamics of family, the search for “home”, and a deep-rooted love of the Alberta landscape underpin her stories and her obsession with finding truth through examining the secrets and lies in ordinary lives.

Betty Jane Hegerat teaches creative writing for Continuing Education at the University of Calgary, and the Alexandra Writers Centre and was the 2009 Writer in Residence at the Memorial Park Library.

Instructor's website: bettyjanehegerat.wordpress.com