Joan Marie Galat  

What the artist does

• Author for children and adults
• Storytelling
• Public Speaking

What the artist has done

• Author of nine books
• Visited hundreds of venues as a teaching artist, including: author presentations, conferences
  and conventions, corporate workshops, keynote speeches, writing residencies, and workshops for students, teachers, librarians, artists, and adult writers and storytellers.
• Experience working with seniors: as a writer-in-residence and workshop instructor

Credentials and memberships

 CREDENTIALS:

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Best selling and award winning author. She has written the Dot to Dot in the Sky series (Whitecap Books), which blends astronomy and ancient mythology; Black Holes and Supernovas; the Dr. Bufflehead Explores series (Scholastic); the travel guide Day Trips From Edmonton; and The Discovery of Longitude.
  
• She has more than 25 years of communications experience which includes writing and editing magazine articles and website content, as well as writing for radio, television, multimedia, and corporate markets.

Memberships:

• Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP)
• Canadian Authors Association
  
• Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)   
• Writers Guild of Alberta
• Young Alberta Book Society
  

Artist comments

• "Joan is a quintessential speaker for a post-secondary audience. She has a natural eloquence, a gift with relevant anecdotes, and an impressive store of experience and knowledge to share. My class of second year professional writing students was intensely engaged from the start to the finish of her 45-minute talk; their only complaint was that the class ended too soon! They wanted to ask more questions." -- Christina M. Grant, MA English, Instructor: Grant MacEwan Professional Writing program, MacEwan English BA program, and NAIT Liberal Arts program