Betty Jane Hegerat pens stories in the splendid writing community of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where she also teaches, mentors, and offers reading and substantive comment on selective works.

Primarily a writer of fiction, her first love was the short story, and it still is, but she finds herself increasingly drawn to personal essay. The waves of memory and nostalgia that come with growing older will do that to a person.

 She is the author of five previous books: three novels, a collection of short stories, and a strange hybrid of memoir, fiction, true crime and metafiction that claims to belong to the genre of creative non-fiction.  Her most recent release is a new collection of short fiction released in November 2025.

Betty Jane was honoured to receive the 2015 Golden Pen Award from the Writers Guild of Alberta.