Betty Jane Hegerat has been a social worker, a teacher, a writer, and a serious student of fiction. Her short stories have been published in Canadian literary magazines and anthologies, and broadcast on CBC radio. Her first novel, Running Toward Home, was published in 2006, and a collection of short stories, A Crack in the Wall, in 2008. She is an Alberta writer with a deep love of the landscape of that province, both urban and rural, and gratitude for the small town origin that has given her the conviction that there are no “ordinary” lives.
“Betty Jane Hegerat is a gifted and compelling storyteller. She deals in ordinary people who lead ordinary lives, but by some unobtrusive narrative magic, her people become extraordinary.”
–David Carpenter.
