Betty Jane Hegerat is the author of two novels and a collection of short stories. A book of creative non-fiction, The Boy, which is told around a mass murder in Alberta in 1959, will be published by Oolichan Books in spring 2011. A social worker by profession, Betty Jane now teaches creative writing for Continuing Education at the University of Calgary and for the Alexandra Writers Centre and other venues. She was the 2009 Writer in Residence at the Memorial Park Library.
Betty Jane writes from a longstanding fascination with relationships and families and the secrets and lies that bind ordinary lives together. Delivery was shortlisted for the George Bugnet Prize for Fiction in the 2010 Alberta Literary Awards. One of the jurors said of Delivery: “Domestic dysfunction never had it so good. This novel lactates with life.”
