About: Heather Forest
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Heather Forest is a storyteller, recording artist, and children's book author. For the past thirty years, she has toured her performance repertoire of World Folktales to theatres, schools, conferences and storytelling festivals throughout the United States and abroad. Her many performance credits include The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., The National Storytelling Festival, TN, Tales of Graz Festival, Austria, the Sidmouth International Folk Festival, England, Glistening Waters Storytelling Festival, New Zealand, and the International Storytelling Festival in Ljungby, Sweden. She has published seven children's picture books, two folktale anthologies, eight audio recordings of storytelling and a popular educational web site Story Arts Online http://www.storyarts.org. Her recordings have won an American Library Association Notable Record Award, two Parent's Choice Gold Awards, and three Storytelling World Honor Awards. Heather holds a Master’s Degree in Storytelling and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Change. She is a recipient of the Circle of Excellence Award presented by the National Storytelling Network, and is an adjunct professor of Oral Tradition at Southern Connecticut State University.
